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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Crying in the Rain
Corey Kilmartin
Painting - 122 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,500
Bloom Boom (framed hand signed screen print)
Pierre Yves Riveau
Print - 87.9 x 61.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 34.6 x 24.3 x 0.1 inch
€1,808
Tête d'autruche 3
François Gruson
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 36 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 14.2 x 0 inch
€1,800
Ceramic Sculpture of a Woman Inner Balance
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 12 x 13.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 5.3 x 5.5 inch
€620
Ogbontarigi Obinrin (Extraordinary Woman)
Abiola Olabamiji
Painting - 127 x 109.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 43 x 1 inch
€2,272
New Bedroom Blonde Doodle
Tom Wesselmann
Print - 76.2 x 88.9 x 1 cm Print - 30 x 35 x 0.4 inch
€27,359
Her Green Robe
Oluwapelumi Oluyemi
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€2,087
Fanatic moreno
Reinaldo Chavez
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 13.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 5.3 inch
€340
La dame au camée
Emile-François Chambon
Painting - 33 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
€1,332
Mecrob - Silhaya 1/8
W.A.Y Studio
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,500
Umbrellas 50 IV
Carlos Martin Jimenez
Painting - 49.8 x 49.8 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.6 x 19.6 x 1.6 inch
€918
The Pulse of Energy
Alexandra Alimova
Painting - 80 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€2,040
Sans Repères
Hom Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€26,400
Generaciones
Adrian Gonzalez Torrez
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,230 €1,107
The Angel and The Minotaur
Federica Frati
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€500
Mémoire - Série Pop colorée
Selda Soyut dit Selda
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€625
Comme je l'imagine
Izabeau Jousse
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,900
Encre II
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 44 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 17.3 x 0.4 inch
€560
My Culture, My Inheritance
Ajenifuja Abiodun
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€1,716
Sexy Scot Sean Connery - James Bond 007
Bob Haswell
Photography - 101 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€795
A Courtesan in the Field of Silver Grass
Chiho Aoshima
Print - 44 x 33 cm Print - 17.3 x 13 inch
€1,858
Mémoire Brisée / Broken Memories
Harold Ambellan
Sculpture - 13.5 x 19 x 0.75 cm Sculpture - 5.3 x 7.5 x 0.3 inch
€950
Portrait
Jean Cocteau
Fine Art Drawings - 26.67 x 19.43 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 7.6 x 0.4 inch
€7,000
From the back of my eyes
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€2,000
The Entertainer
Terrece Beesley
Painting - 40.6 x 55.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 16 x 22 x 0.5 inch
€1,716
Malaquias abyssus
Antonio Mejias
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,400
Frank Sinatra And Lyrics To My Way
Tony Rubino
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 2 inch
€1,804
SAMOURAI Acteur de Kabuki
Utagawa Kunisada Toyokuni III
Print - 34 x 21 x 1 cm Print - 13.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€990
Autoportrait à la combi
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€950
No Fun! from "In the Floating World"
Yoshitomo Nara
Print - 41.5 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€26,558
Femme endormie
Léopold Survage
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 10.2 x 0 inch
€1,200
Tokyo Pic Nic II
Motohiko Hasui
Photography - 45.5 x 56 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
€500
ManoScape, I
Kourosh Sotoodeh
Photography - 91 x 61 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.8 x 24 x 0.2 inch
€650
An Ode of False Bonds
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 1 inch
€6,121
Buddha and Blues
Koorosh Nejad
Painting - 140 x 105.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 41.7 x 1.6 inch
€2,107
Enjoying the sea breeze
Jose Luis De la Barra Bellido
Painting - 91.4 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 38 x 1 inch
€2,040
Señor Azul 02
Shyne Eghosa Obazee
Painting - 125 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,960
Every day is indigenous peoples day
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 295.9 x 58.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 116.5 x 22.9 x 0.04 inch
€1,100
1985 Pierrot
Sarah Wiame-Peclard
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,950
Dans le cœur
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 73 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.5 x 1 inch
€3,800
Océanie – Le Haka
Maxime Hurdequint
Sculpture - 82 x 22 x 1 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
€500