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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Golden Face
Jose Ladrón de Guevara
Painting - 85 x 68 x 0.2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 26.8 x 0.1 inch
$2,456
Mickey Mouse
Juliane Hundertmark
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 57 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$2,659
Fumatore d'arte
Giorgio A.F. Valentini
Painting - 80 x 80 x 10 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 3.9 inch
$809
You look at me sadly, Nevo 1
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$474
Overthink no.37
Marie-Chloé Duval
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$1,846
Henriette
Raoul Dufy
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 46 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$1,734
1955 Joueur de BANJO Player
Kam Zin Choon
Painting - 59 x 50 x 0.75 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.7 x 0.3 inch
$6,877
Mythological composition
Spas Kirichev
Sculpture - 29 x 32 x 13 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 12.6 x 5.1 inch
$2,947
Portrait d'une jeune femme thaïlandaise
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 60 x 30 cm Photography - 23.6 x 11.8 inch
$925
Not Hopeless
Agbabiaka Johnmark
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,250
Le egipcia y su cicatriz. (Serie importancia del YO)
Marisa Escudero Cuervas-Mons
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,537
Web of Intrigues
Olalekan Adeyemi
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,300 $1,725
Late Night Behind the Bar in New Orleans
John Migicovsky
Photography - 40.6 x 30.5 x 1.3 cm Photography - 16 x 12 x 0.5 inch
$800
The Reluctance of September Leaves
Patricia Ariel
Painting - 61 x 48.3 x 0.5 cm Painting - 24 x 19 x 0.2 inch
$1,225
Ultra Lumen Lamp Sculpture
Hebru Brantley
Sculpture - 41 x 33 x 41 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 13 x 16.1 inch
$29,250
Raz'ebala Vse Ebalo
Anna Bukhareva
Painting - 30.5 x 43.2 x 0.2 cm Painting - 12 x 17 x 0.1 inch
$1,849
Fairy Playing Chinese Lute
Qing-Yan Li
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$1,907
Dame à l'éventail
Vittorio Gussoni
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,907
Un bouquet de tulipes
Chantal Roux
Painting - 65 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,121
Times are changing
Akintomide Akinshola
Painting - 63.5 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 25 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,566
Les nuits blanches
Fabienne Comte
Painting - 140 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$6,473
Mutum Village, Rio Gregório Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil (XL)
Sebastião Salgado
Photography - 61 x 88.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 24 x 35 x 1 inch
$18,500
Regardless - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children, Jewellery
John Ali
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,350 $2,513
To The One Who Knows 1
Elisha Nyong
Painting - 114.3 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45 x 40 x 1 inch
$3,350 $2,680
Softer then tender
Valeriya Salnikova
Painting - 90 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,000
Le guide
Gérard Rancinan
Photography - 125 x 125 x 1.5 cm Photography - 49.2 x 49.2 x 0.6 inch
$23,117
Lecteur sur le ventre - Série corps humain
Pauline Baste Morand
Sculpture - 8 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 3.1 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,023
Woman in the Sun
Gerardo La Porta
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,774
Aglaia airlines Paris-Berlin
Yvon Taillandier
Painting - 55 x 79 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 31.1 x 0 inch
$1,387
Elena and Cressie get ready for the party 3
Julian Opie
Print - 78 x 62 x 3.8 cm Print - 30.7 x 24.4 x 1.5 inch
$7,513
The inner peace
Nataliia Zhuravlova
Painting - 45 x 55 x 1.7 cm Painting - 17.7 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
$770
Tiempo (Temps)
Manuel Martí Moreno
Sculpture - 107 x 52 x 60 cm Sculpture - 42.1 x 20.5 x 23.6 inch
$9,016
5- Masque à l'os
Joseph Kurhajec
Sculpture - 50 x 30 x 10 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 11.8 x 3.9 inch
$2,312
Woman with a white cat
Ewa Wróbel - Hultqvist
Painting - 30 x 20 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,156
Madone avec enfants et angelot
Maurice Denis
Print - 35.5 x 26.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 14 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
$616
Twiggy – at David Steen’s Home, Surrey
David Steen
Photography - 61 x 46 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$1,595
Stroke - Les machines de la médecine - série Collages
Karine Barbier (dite Ka Bé)
Print - 60 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$867
L’adieu aux armes, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$694
