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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La Danse des Anges --- numéro 1/8.
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 38 x 26 x 21 cm Sculpture - 15 x 10.2 x 8.3 inch
€8,000
Les Causeuses --- Bronze - numéroté 1/8.
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 27 x 40 x 26 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 15.7 x 10.2 inch
€10,000
La virtuose
Jean-Louis Toutain
Sculpture - 77 x 39 x 39 cm Sculpture - 30.3 x 15.4 x 15.4 inch
€21,000
Quand passent les éléphants roses
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Autoportrait à Deauville 3
László Mester de Parajd
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,600
LOST- L'enfant à la bulle de savon - by Rembrandt
Jordan Pankov
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
€69
Sans titre - série Caraïbes
Jean-Michel Loutoby
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€420
Calcio
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€90
Jamais sans toi
Christiane Guerry
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
Sa façon de se soulever...
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,950
Au feu de la joie
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€3,550
Portrait
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 32.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 12.8 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16.1 x 0 inch
€2,200
Bubble face III
Nef
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0 inch
€100
The lithium chane
Jason DeBose
Photography - 58 x 87 x 2 cm Photography - 22.8 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Marie de Nazareth dans sa Cuisine après L'Annonciation
Evelyne Huet
Print - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
Mince alors
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
La femme idéale
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,000
Des lendemains pleins de promesses
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€4,200
Dans un bruissement d'ailes
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Samburu shepherd
John Kenny
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,089
Ognuno balla come vuole
Giusy Lauriola
Painting - 14 x 14 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inch
€280
Dai facciamo questa foto e poi andiamo a giocare
Giusy Lauriola
Painting - 14 x 14 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inch
€280
Avete visto chi sta passando?
Giusy Lauriola
Painting - 14 x 14 x 1.5 cm Painting - 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inch
€280
Winter is all over you
Anika Manuel
Painting - 17.2 x 17.3 x 2 cm Painting - 6.8 x 6.8 x 0.8 inch
€241
I hide myself within my Flower
Anika Manuel
Painting - 18 x 18 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 7.1 x 0.8 inch
€167
The Deer Hunter
Svetlana Melik-Nubarova
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 cm Photography - 20 x 16 inch
€875
The woman with flowers
Krum Kostov
Painting - 39 x 27 x 0.2 cm Painting - 15.4 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
€150
Sous la couette
Alexandre Mijatovic
Sculpture - 15 x 35 x 27 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 13.8 x 10.6 inch
€6,000
Lily - Rose
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 171 x 75 x 68 cm Sculpture - 67.3 x 29.5 x 26.8 inch
€35,000
La testa dell'eroe
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€130
