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Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
€750
L'Offrande et la pierre plate
Réjane LeChat
Sculpture - 45 x 9 x 14 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 3.5 x 5.5 inch
€1,800
The Pictorial Cabinet of Marvels
Adele Moreau
Sculpture - 25 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.1 inch
€914
Desvelando Gaudí 015
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
€400
Manufactura 9
Oriol Texidor
Photography - 40 x 50 x 7 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 2.8 inch
€1,260
Here I Am
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 99.8 x 74.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 29.5 x 1 inch
€1,391
Summertime
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Invitation au voyage
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
€975
Le retour des beaux jours
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
Les fiancés de la mer rouge
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€600
Personnage
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€300 €240
Printemps précoce
Danielle Le Bricquir
Painting - 81 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,250
Portrait PS 126 Kiev - De guerre lasse - French school
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.5 inch
€1,600
Like diamonds shining (Identity Testimonies Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€850
Spotty face beauty
Faie Davis
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€888
Karo people from Ethiopia
Faie Davis
Photography - 30 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€950
Homme dans fauteuil
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 122 x 107 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 42.1 x 1.2 inch
€3,000 €2,400
Le manteau rouge
Victorine Follana
Painting - 70 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,100
Torse Épigastrique (Opus 377)
Miguel Berrocal
Sculpture - 15 x 7 x 5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 2.8 x 2 inch
€1,800
Il est mien #2
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
€750
Let there be light !
Olivier Massebeuf
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€900
Red Cube
Shota Imerlishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€2,000
Ilori 3 (Put To Bed)
Janet Adebayo
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
€1,909
Procession - série personnages en marche bronze
Mireille Bassier-Tilmont
Sculpture - 23 x 34 x 10 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 13.4 x 3.9 inch
€600
Taali, série silhouette de femme
Mireille Bassier-Tilmont
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 6 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 2.4 inch
€2,600
Ganesha. Royal case of elephantiasis
The opium smoking white elephant
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
€800
Anamorphose - série corps humain
Anne-Marie Renno
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€450
TRITIUM 21
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 49 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
€1,200
Lovers, I’ll put a spell on you. (I was listening to Nina Simone)
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
€5,890
What's hidden
Agnieszka Staak-Janczarska
Sculpture - 28 x 22 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11 x 8.7 x 6.7 inch
€1,800
A Wise Woman Once Said - (Bronze No. 2 of 10)
Joyce Fournier
Sculpture - 22.9 x 24.1 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 9 x 9.5 x 6 inch
€3,214 €2,571
2 is better than 1
Aziseh Emmanuel
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
€4,200
Dark sacred night
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 114 x 147 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.9 x 1.6 inch
€4,650
The meeting place
Aziseh Emmanuel
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1 inch
€5,700
Freya's Will
Aslan Selcuk Arik
Sculpture - 70 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
€7,000 €6,300
L'attirance
François Sauvage
Painting - 130 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,100 €990
Demi buste femme 2
Hassan Laamirat
Sculpture - 73 x 40 x 15 cm Sculpture - 28.7 x 15.7 x 5.9 inch
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Collection Liberty - HB1787
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€500 €250
Muscas, la reine des mouches
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000 €1,800
Newport - H0438 - Collection Artificial Nature
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€1,600 €1,360
Solarized Roundism 01-07-22
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 29.7 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,660
F0102 – La renversante
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€1,800 €1,620
Lovers - Night of passion 9
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 75.9 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 24 x 0.6 inch
€997
Lovers - Love of my life 2
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€997
Lovers - Love of my life 3
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 80 x 59.9 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
€997
Sans titre (8)
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€600
araneosuS
Louis Blanc
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,750 €1,575
Collection Purity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon - HB1255
Idan Wizen
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€750 €600
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.