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Rencontre dans le temps
Nathalie Decoster
Sculpture - 50 x 80 x 26 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 31.5 x 10.2 inch
€15,000
Fumée 22e1
Etienne Gros
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,400
Aesthesia No. 3, Series I
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€8,900
Aesthesia No. 2, Series I
Mario Henrique
Painting - 190 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€9,900
Aesthesia No. 1, Series I
Mario Henrique
Painting - 190 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 74.8 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€9,900
Si belle dans tes yeux
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 15 x 10 x 0.2 cm Painting - 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
€250
Half dolls talk No.3
Dana Widawski
Sculpture - 39.9 x 24.9 x 15.2 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 6 inch
€6,200
Femme à lunette
Luc Masson-Todeschini
Photography - 27.6 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 10.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
€300
La couleur de l'âme
Natacha Birds
Painting - 116 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€2,000
India dreams - Passion N°5
Jean-François Charles
Print - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€200
9 LegShow bronze
Eric Neveu
Photography - 60 x 120 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€2,600
Blue bird, Reflection five, Umami
San Kara
Painting - 119 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 46.9 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€7,450
In d mood 4 love
Justin Chan
Photography - 80 x 56.5 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 22.2 x 0.2 inch
€9,500
Nu - Raphaelle
Aurélie Trabaud
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€80
3 Women and a Harlequin
Peter Carella
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
€1,727
L'avortement - La mer donne et reprend tout
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0 inch
€240
Belisama Jocaste
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 54 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
€16,000
Shijunku99 - Beauty - #002 - Feu du soleil levant
Davis Y
Photography - 20 x 20 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
€150
Lotta perpetua
Nicola Bertoglio
Photography - 50 x 81 x 4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€350
Seme dischiuso
Nicola Bertoglio
Photography - 50 x 81 x 4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€350
Luxe, calme et volupté
Catherine Clare
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€1,700
Kouros Ceylan 81-14
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 57 x 45 x 18 cm Sculpture - 22.4 x 17.7 x 7.1 inch
€2,450
Belisama Rouge Carmin 42-19
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 48 x 42 x 13 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 16.5 x 5.1 inch
€3,000
Il y a de la religion dans vos baisers
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€150
Je n'oublierai jamais ton visage
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€150
Elle voulait montrer son ventre à Dieu.x
Lili Ruby Chomat
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€150
Nude Art 1-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€500
Divas de jazz
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,000
Pauline mise en abyme
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€3,000
Model in the studio
Dima Filatov
Painting - 73 x 121 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 47.6 x 0.2 inch
€580
Disinvoltura Viola
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 54 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
€1,900
Endormie
Thalia Dalecky
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€320
Les demoiselles dansent
Patmoli
Painting - 200 x 210 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 82.7 x 0.1 inch
€5,600
Le jeu des sept différences variante
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
€840
ELLE Une sirène / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Sensualité et intimité
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€650
Before you leave
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30.5 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€650
Douce vengeance variante
Valentine Bouvet
Painting - 73 x 64 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 25.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,140
Bronze figurine (Standing woman)
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 20 x 6 x 6 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 2.4 x 2.4 inch
€2,200
Bronze figurine (Maquette)
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 23 x 12 x 7 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 4.7 x 2.8 inch
€2,200
Kira's Tattoo
Richard Dunkley
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1.3 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.5 inch
€305
Female nude & seascape Dreams at the sea
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,900
N° 790 Etirement
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 43 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 16.9 x 0.1 inch
€200
N° 771 Chansons d'amour.
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€230
Glamorous games
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Female nude and nature the beauty of silence
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
€3,900
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.