Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!
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Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 100.1 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.5 x 1 inch
€2,384 €1,788
Nathan Chantob
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 43 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 16.9 x 0.4 inch
€3,500 €3,150
Alexandre Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,900
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,349 €1,012
Jean-Paul Radic
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,250
Otto Schade
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€900 €855
Damilola Ilori
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9 x 1 inch
€944 €709
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Alexander Valchev
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
€820
Yana Dmitrieva
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 19.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 7.7 x 0 inch
€270
Léopold Survage
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€1,200
Jean Cocteau
Fine Art Drawings - 26.67 x 19.43 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 7.6 x 0.4 inch
€7,000 €6,300
Claude Weisbuch
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 32 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
Konstantinos Papaioannou
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 20.3 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8 x 0.1 inch
€2,665
François Gruson
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 36 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
€1,800
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,437
Brian Calvin
Fine Art Drawings - 14.9 x 33.2 x 1.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 13.1 x 0.5 inch
€8,096
José Fernández Morán
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 48 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,000
Stan Manoukian
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,850
Stef Basias
Fine Art Drawings - 47.5 x 33.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.7 x 13.2 x 0.1 inch
€295
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€6,500
