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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Fergusson
Alexandre Monteiro (Hopare)
Painting - 160 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$44,109
Skipping (cast resin sculpture)
MacKenzie Thorpe
Sculpture - 38.1 x 21 x 14.6 cm Sculpture - 15 x 8.25 x 5.75 inch
$3,715
Qu'est-ce que vous voulez dire?
Sylvain Coulombe
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$6,233
Frédérica
Luigi Corbellini
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 29 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,020
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 OG Sculpture
Hebru Brantley
Sculpture - 41 x 33 x 41 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 13 x 16.1 inch
$29,250
La Belle Endormine
Irakli Nasidze
Sculpture - 14 x 32 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 12.6 x 4.3 inch
$5,484
Aragon (série "Fossiles du futur")
Sylviane Le Boulc'h
Sculpture - 26 x 20 x 13 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.9 x 5.1 inch
$858
Revelation in Abstraction
Nytia Jenkins
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
$2,861
Eyes on me custom skate deck skateboard
Andrew Wallas
Painting - 22 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,013
Clark Gable à Paris
René Vital
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$834
Portrait de dame
Albert Chavaz
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 17 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
$893
Effeullier la marguerite
Alex Laben
Painting - 50 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,717
Les nuits blanches
Fabienne Comte
Painting - 140 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$6,676
Paradise Portraits (portfolio of 8)
Erwin Olaf
Photography - 18 x 13.5 x 2 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inch
$5,961
In the FIeld among the Flowers - Contemporary printed portrait
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Print - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Print - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,550
Amy Winehouse
Stikki Peaches
Fine Art Drawings - 135 x 95 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 53.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch
$5,722
Jeune femme allongée sur le sofa
Maurice Barraud
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
$893
We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #2
Tran Trong Vu
Painting - 254 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 100 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,300
Portrait de Paul Gauguin
George-Daniel de Monfreid
Print - 17.3 x 12.2 x 0.1 cm Print - 6.8 x 4.8 x 0 inch
$5,841
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Phtalo Blue)
Sup Kim
Print - 88.5 x 70 x 1 cm Print - 34.8 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,071
Another man's wife
Evans Torngmortey
Painting - 183 x 122 x 2 cm Painting - 72 x 48 x 0.8 inch
$4,172
Brain beats. Yellow
Emilio Garcia
Sculpture - 27 x 21 x 18 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 8.3 x 7.1 inch
$4,708
Bats toi, ne baisse pas les bras et tu seras libre N°2
Jacob Diboum
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
$393
Dancer in Motion 4
Anthony Lister
Painting - 26 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$4,649
David Bowie - The Archer
John Rowlands
Photography - 50.8 x 66 x 5.1 cm Photography - 20 x 26 x 2 inch
$2,000
The Lady with the Necklace
Elisabeth Constantin
Painting - 34 x 34 x 4 cm Painting - 13.4 x 13.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,431
Portrait d'une jeune femme assise sur un banc
Marcel-René Chassard
Painting - 57.5 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 22.6 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,403
Un ange passe II
Clémentine Verlaine
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,338
Marianne
Christophe Létua aka Tophe
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,669
Rod Stewart & Britt Ekland – Beverly Hills, 1976
David Salle
Photography - 137 x 100 x 0.01 cm Photography - 53.9 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$5,067
They watch
Edward Zelinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.2 inch
$550
Portrait of Man
Paul Ascan Demmé
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,311
L'enfant à la larme
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 35 x 30 x 27 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11.8 x 10.6 inch
$6,914
Le roi et la reine
Sophie Mathilde Tauss
Sculpture - 46 x 18 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.1 x 7.9 inch
$5,722
Raíces y ancestros
Cristina Méndez
Painting - 26 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 10.2 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$2,027
Autumne. Vivaldi inspiration.
Ema Szabo
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,931
Small Tiger II
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun
Painting - 76.2 x 60.96 x 2.54 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$8,500
But is there anything under the shell
Niko Remes
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,503