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Série de profils (4) Double Face
Qi Wen
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 26 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 10.2 inch
$656
Through the Fog
Stephanie Blaess
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.4 inch
$3,845
Une femme africaine
Stéphane Iffono
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$848
Battre la campagne
Aurélie Salvaing
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,979
Belmondo / Paris Match (1)
Gragnon François
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,262
Salvador Dali / Paris Match
Patrice Habans
Photography - 52 x 78 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.5 x 30.7 x 0 inch
$1,809
L'amoureuse
Koffi Mounou Désiré
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
Personaggio dell'immaginario
Arturo Carmassi
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$147
Family 1 (#146) BVE
Boaz Vaadia
Sculpture - 50.8 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 20 x 21 x 15 inch
$56,000
Je ne sais pas ce que je veux
Christopher Dombres
Print - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$57
Ombrellino (Umbrella)
Massimo Campigli
Painting - 115 x 125 x 0.6 cm Painting - 45.3 x 49.2 x 0.2 inch
$88,210
"Monster Book For Girls" - Hand Finished Limited Edition (Large Format)
Gavin Mitchell
Print - 140 x 94 x 0.1 cm Print - 55.1 x 37 x 0 inch
$2,827
Dancer Combing the Hair
Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Print - 35 x 26 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$226
Via Lattea
Amalia Di Tecco alias Le Bomboline
Sculpture - 23 x 13 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 5.1 x 7.9 inch
$430
The kharoub's seller
Miguel Angel Sanchez
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$792
Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? 3
Charlotte Skurzak
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$679
Commission for Melissa 50 lance
Marilyn Kalish
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$315
Dietrich / Paris Match
Paul Slade
Photography - 80 x 53 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 20.9 x 0 inch
$1,809
The Beatles / Paris Match
André Lefebvre
Photography - 53 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,262
Bardot - Caron / Paris Match
Michou Simon
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$2,036
Guerre d'Algérie, 1962
Maurice Jarnoux
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$679
Kelly, Aumont / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo & Michou Simon
Photography - 55 x 55 x 0.1 cm Photography - 21.7 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$1,809
Modella, 1975
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$132
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,488
Lis Lève toi et Marche
Olivier Rebecq
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$656
L'Anachorète aviateur
Bertrand Bataille
Painting - 93 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,184 $3,347
Les chaussures bleues
Eric Crémer
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Ecologia Profonda, Selfportrait
Chiara Mazzocchi
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$560
Miss burlesque star
Artemisia Fine Art
Painting - 79.8 x 79.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 31.4 x 2 inch
$4,100
The frozen few 5546
Götz Göppert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$763
Andy Warhol in the Stone Age
Kurotory
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,120
Me
Johanna Sanna
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$565
Fleur Bleu (Blue flower)
Juliette Lemontey
Painting - 162.6 x 114.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 64 x 45 x 2 inch
$9,000
L'Infante Marie Marguerite
Jules Milhau
Painting - 200 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$18,094
Madame Dutilleul
Eric Valat
Sculpture - 140 x 115 x 60 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 45.3 x 23.6 inch
$28,272
Charito Zarate Torino
Ryan Arbilo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$905
Immediate Family
Dang Xuan Hoa
Painting - 67.3 x 149.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 26.5 x 59 x 2 inch
$39,000
Once Upon a Time 25
Georges Bassil
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 75 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 29.5 inch
$3,300
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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!