Unrealized dream
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 37 x 14 x 15 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 5.5 x 5.9 inch
€1,372
Animal
Animals are often featured in news, sometimes in heartwarming tales of human and animal companionship and other times in heartbreaking stories of illegal trade and endangered species. Animals are even present in social sciences, especially thank to ethology (behavioural sciences of animals in their natural habitat). They have fascinated philosophers from Antiquity all the way through to today and they are even present in the medical realm, as the benefits of animal-assisted therapies have been scientifically proven.
The relationship between humans and animals is also taken into account in the politics, most notably when debating topics related to ecology, the protection of ecosystems and sustainable development. Thus, animals might be seen as a crucial indicator of humanity's concerns.
As well in these many sectors, animals are also very much present in the arts. A number of art museums have decided exhibitions to animals including the Cluny Museum in Paris and MoMA PS1 in New York. Whether simply a humble spectator in an 18th century painting or the central subject of a Courbet painting, animals are present throughout the history of art. From symbolic, to esthetic, to abstract, to animal drawings meant to simply record their appearance...all these representations have played a role in influencing artists and also how we characterise and think of individual animals.
Each civilisation has represented the animal on multiples supports (mosaics, metal, stone, bones, etc.) as seen on the Nerja cave wall paintings in Andalusia discovered in 1925. Animal iconography has had multiple purposes, varying according to the era and place. Bats, for example, are often used to represent death, fear or superstition in Western art, whereas the Chinese see them as a sign of happiness. The omnipresence of animals within cultures across the globe is probably down to the similarities between men and animal, a source of both fascination and fear.
In this selection, Artsper helps you to discover the beauty of the animal kingdom, its diversity, strength and fragility. Artists depict animals in a huge range of mediums: sculpture, painting, photographs, and drawings. Contemporary artists bring an original and poetic vision to their representations of the animals with whom we share our world.
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Me and the elephant
Karen Akhikyan
Sculpture - 31 x 14 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 5.5 x 4.7 inch
€1,235
Elegante en robe jaune
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€880
Le Cheval s'étant voulu venger du Cerf
Salvador Dali
Print - 57 x 76 x 0.05 cm Print - 22.4 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,000
Banc de poissons #14
David Jehan (B.boss)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€590
35cm CH Tribute, Full Black Teddy
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 28 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11 x 9.8 inch
€650
A way to freedom
Cécile Erembert
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
€1,157
Joyful dotted Monstrum
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 23 x 13.5 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.3 x 4.3 inch
€550 €495
Woman walking with a dog
Schagen Vita
Painting - 56 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
€800
Modern Borrowed Scenery Submarine Shinkai 6500
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
€500
Look at this beauty, honey
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 94 x 94 x 2 cm Painting - 37 x 37 x 0.8 inch
€1,300
Soft-Eyed Sheep
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€3,979
Battements... (Origami 2023)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
€600
My kitten is a rapper
Patrick Cornée
Sculpture - 26 x 20 x 12 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.9 x 4.7 inch
€2,300
Born Wild Black Panther
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 70 x 148 x 32 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 58.3 x 12.6 inch
€27,000
The great escape... (Origami 2025)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
From Hump to Hump
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 59 x 68 x 21 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 26.8 x 8.3 inch
€8,500
The Stronger of the Two
Sophie Verger
Sculpture - 26.5 x 48 x 15 cm Sculpture - 10.4 x 18.9 x 5.9 inch
€5,200
Paris, Place Vendôme Ritz
Chris Morin-Eitner
Print - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€180
Climate Clash - (Cream)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 60.96 x 60.96 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 24 x 0.1 inch
€500
Cloned Bouly with shoes
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 29 x 35 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 13.8 x 5.9 inch
€1,400
Cloned Bloodhound with Backpack
William Sweetlove
Sculpture - 57 x 30 x 37 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 11.8 x 14.6 inch
€2,200
The Bear Wants you to Stop Fighting
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
€600
Sans titre, Bajo el mismo mar serie
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€800
Le furet dans l'ombre des bois
Sébastien Nadin
Painting - 118 x 84 x 1 cm Painting - 46.5 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,800
Sheep With Red Drinking
Menashe Kadishman
Painting - 30 x 25 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1 inch
€1,360
Dentelle Panther
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 38 x 80 x 17 cm Sculpture - 15 x 31.5 x 6.7 inch
€56,700
The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag
Salvador Dali
Print - 59 x 79 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.2 x 31.1 x 0 inch
€1,350
La vie est belle
Tarek
Fine Art Drawings - 37.5 x 23.4 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 9.2 x 0 inch
€550
N° 1240 Lac de Tibériade. Do-Beïtenou.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€540
