Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!
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Irène, Goddess of peace
Youthone
Painting - 103 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,010 €909
Madalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
Youthone
Painting - 103 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
€1,000 €900
Alain Bashung à la main douce
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€2,900
Untitled 2
Nino Tolomashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€530
Contemporary Amy Winehouse III
Gongas
Painting - 100 x 81 x 0.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0 inch
€380
Des de l'habitació maragda
Alejandra Caballero
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
Sold
Do Not Enter
Deborah Bakos
Painting - 92 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,820 €1,547
Haïtienne – 1 .0
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€1,875
Madonna & Child
Svetlana Melik-Nubarova
Photography - 38.1 x 30.5 cm Photography - 15 x 12 inch
€800 €696
La valse
Élisabeth Gineste (Sitelle)
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€1,900 €1,710
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Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 200 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Orchidia-Queen of the Night
Kohlene Hendrickson
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
Sold
Tribute to Josephine
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€249
Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand 1
Tarek X Mat Elbé
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€900
Portrait of a girl taken by surprise
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€180
Le Bon, la Brute et le Truand 2
Tarek X Mat Elbé
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€900
Meditating in the Dark
Miiickey Madu
Painting - 41.9 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€4,400
Sans Titre
Meteo Meteo
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€75 €57
Silencio
Mariela Garibay
Sculpture - 38 x 25 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15 x 9.8 x 11.8 inch
Price upon request
Untitled
Aron Kroes
Painting - 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Revolution Aromatica
Robert van Bolderick
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
€8,300
