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Philippe Pasqua
Photography - 170 x 140 x 0.5 cm Photography - 66.9 x 55.1 x 0.2 inch
€14,000
Chiaruscoro of still life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
€1,200
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Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 11.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 4.5 x 0 inch
€650
Simone Veil
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€12,900
Preparing the pan
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 25.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
€587
Vanité tatouée - bleue
Philippe Pasqua
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€11,000
Les bleus à l'âme 3
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€950
We Are All The Same / SAMOURAÏ
Insane 51
Painting - 135 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
€14,500
Chaperon rouge illustration 4
Ghislaine Ferreira
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
€500
Scenography
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.3 x 6.1 x 0 inch
€900
Ode to Alice Neel
Randi Matushevitz
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 inch
€1,173
Grande vanité aux papillons
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 160 x 160 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 63 x 1.6 inch
€28,000
Sur le fil -1
Magali Berdaguer
Sculpture - 110 x 75 x 3 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 29.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Le Temps Passe, Tu te Questionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 110 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 43.3 x 55.1 x 2 inch
€3,000
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Le chemin
Véronique Bourgeois-Noury
Painting - 146 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 35 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Empress Louiza
YZ (Yzeult)
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€900
Run DMC- Back to the source
OverSide
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€350
Chine mon amour
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 60 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
€350
Essence VIII
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€400
Personnage à la houppe
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 7.9 inch
€1,050
La Jeune Femme au Papillon
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,500
Woman
Simon Goldberg
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 5.9 x 0 inch
€300
Écran noir
Marie-Ange Daudé
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€6,750
Red (Hommage to Rembrandt)
Melinda Matyas
Painting - 45.7 x 35.6 x 2 cm Painting - 18 x 14 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Portrait
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€500
Gueule d'ange N°17
Stephane Richard
Painting - 68 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 26.8 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
€890
Portrait of Woman
François Chapuis
Fine Art Drawings - 55 x 39 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.7 x 15.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,600
Invité au repas 15
Roger Decaux
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€900
Retrato 1
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
€1,369
Installation 1
Sarkis Sislian
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
€3,402
Alter Ego (after Roger Ballen)
Roger Ballen
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
€1,250
Roger Ballen, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée
Roger Ballen
Print - 25.5 x 20 cm Print - 10 x 7.9 inch
€700
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…