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Sur le rocher
Jacques Coquillay
Sculpture - 43 x 54 x 18 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 21.3 x 7.1 inch
€10,500
Yes, Picasso
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,800
Conception, The Liberations
Paige Bradley
Sculpture - 86.4 x 20.3 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 34 x 8 x 10 inch
€17,271
Butterfly B29
Giuliano Bekor
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
€19,669
Faces and Places
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 114 x 110 x 0.5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 43.3 x 0.2 inch
€3,454
A whirlwind of emotions #2
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,355
A Feeling Called Love
Tinatin Bakhtadze
Painting - 125 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 49.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
€5,800
Different Shades of Human 2
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 160 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€6,000
Model, 1975
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€150
La mer 24
Richard Pommier
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inch
€190
End of the Market III
Jesus Torio
Photography - 118.9 x 83.79 x 0.2 cm Photography - 46.8 x 33 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
End of the Market II
Jesus Torio
Photography - 118.9 x 83.79 x 0.2 cm Photography - 46.8 x 33 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
Wrapped series untitled #33
Robert Mack
Photography - 106.7 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm Photography - 42 x 28 x 1 inch
€5,757
Pavarti Incertitude
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 26 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€950
Spontaneous Creation (part 1)
Rob Woodcox
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€3,022
Devant la grille
Franck Rozet
Photography - 150 x 80 x 0.6 cm Photography - 59.1 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
€3,800
Softness of ocher
Franck Rozet
Photography - 98 x 69 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38.6 x 27.2 x 0.2 inch
€2,450
Chorégraphe d'oiseaux bronze
Grégory Poussier
Sculpture - 66 x 45 x 25 cm Sculpture - 26 x 17.7 x 9.8 inch
€9,400
Man in Canoe
Celso Castro
Photography - 140 x 419.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 55.1 x 165.3 x 1 inch
€11,994
Man in Canoe 2
Celso Castro
Photography - 59.9 x 378.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 149 x 1 inch
€9,595
Paris with love - Italian painting
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€450
Petit déjeuner sur l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€2,500
Jeune fille aux mandarines
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
€3,500
Encreuse d'ombres
Grégory Poussier
Sculpture - 55 x 85 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 33.5 x 17.7 inch
€14,000
A whirlwind of emotions #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,354
Après le bain, petite version
Pierre Sojo
Painting - 81 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 2 inch
€2,800
Admiring her friend
Gabriela Brito
Painting - 98 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 38.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,341
2023-1140 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€115
Sensuality - Sea & rose - Italian painting
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€315
3 Figures assises I
Pierre Yermia
Sculpture - 42 x 49 x 16 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.3 x 6.3 inch
€9,500
Nu assis et citron au temps frais
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 45 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€490
Waiting for the tide
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 140 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€9,000
N°22013 Hommes Taureaux Etude 3
Capton
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€200
De Humani corporis fabrica 1
Sonali Patel
Sculpture - 70 x 56 x 15 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 22 x 5.9 inch
€5,112
Wow sexy woman ( Roy Lichtenstein VS KUNI ) - Red
Tushi Kuni
Print - 59 x 41.5 x 0.5 cm Print - 23.2 x 16.3 x 0.2 inch
€129
Naphta tribes VIII
Fab Rideti
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,900
Couple Nuit
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€650
Supplique du séant n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€150
Mes deux merveilles
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 29.6 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€450
Corner Love 1
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 42 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 16.5 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
€240
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.