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!

Grandma's Treasures 2

Irokanulo Darlington

Painting . 39 x 30 x 1 cm Painting . 15.4 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch

€3,900

Because the night

Sitelle

Painting . 65 x 54 x 1 cm Painting . 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch

€950

Us, Huge Original Painting on Canvas, Signed, 75 x 60 in. Stretched

James Ulmer

Painting . 190.5 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting . 75 x 60 x 2 inch

€24,961

Eye Catching

Bjarne Kyed

Painting . 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch

€900

Night Garden Ride - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women

Mayowa Adekile

Painting . 76.2 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm Painting . 30 x 25 x 1 inch

€2,362

River

Gil Bruvel

Sculpture . 63 x 43 x 56 cm Sculpture . 24.8 x 16.9 x 22 inch

€36,000

Between me and what is not me

Ha Yeon U

Painting . 72.7 x 90.9 x 3 cm Painting . 28.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch

€2,200

Rivage

AKET

Painting . 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch

€8,500

Old friend

Andrzej Kreutz-Majewski

Painting . 28 x 15 cm Painting . 11 x 5.9 inch

€1,300

Portrait with four hands, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Barbara Kroll

Painting . 59.9 x 49.8 x 3.8 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.5 inch

€1,426

Beneath the crimson veil

Victor Sonoiki

Painting . 61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting . 24 x 30 x 1.5 inch

€1,649

Space girl

Nathalie Cubéro

Painting . 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch

€895

Human

Hom Nguyen

Painting . 200 x 200 x 4 cm Painting . 78.7 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch

€25,000

I am My Hope -21st Century Contemporary, Expressionism, Portrait, Modern, Africa

Joshua Salami

Painting . 91.4 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting . 36 x 30 x 1 inch

€1,649

She is found in the night, as if she never meant to return

Elsa Garate

Painting . 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€4,800

Starting Block

AE2

Painting . 120 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€2,000

Seeing in Color

Svetlana Cheraud

Painting . 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting . 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch

€2,000

Cool, fun et vive les fleurs

Seb Paul Michel

Painting . 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting . 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch

€500

Girls

Nico Pichon

Painting . 80 x 60 x 5 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 2 inch

€1,500

The eyes of butterfly

France Courpotin

Painting . 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€3,800

Lena

Lianne Kocks

Painting . 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch

€800

Diptych Memory Fragments

Margarita Ivanova

Painting . 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€3,000

Echoes of Identity

Ole Hedeager

Painting . 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€1,360

My family wax n°9

Stéphanie Calemard

Painting . 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€1,450

In The Midst of Becoming.

Tatsiana Yelistratava

Painting . 91 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting . 35.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch

€1,765

Chun-Ja’s Multiverse Story - Chunja Face

Shin Seung-Hun

Painting . 53 x 45.5 x 5 cm Painting . 20.9 x 17.9 x 2 inch

€1,000

Rare Lichtenstein Street Art Girl

Freda People Art

Painting . 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting . 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch

€900

Mets lui un nez I

David Cumps

Painting . 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

€1,200

Attention, amour frais

Afat One

Painting . 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting . 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch

€2,500

Portrait of an Uncontained Mind 1 -21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Modern

Eyitayo Alagbe

Painting . 66 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting . 26 x 20 x 1 inch

€2,095

Il a un p'tit grain...

Béatrice Terra

Painting . 95 x 60 x 4 cm Painting . 37.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch

€2,900

Roboïde Mandalorian

PRAB'Z

Sculpture . 60 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture . 23.6 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch

€750

Amy Winehouse, do it with style

Patrick Cornée

Painting . 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€1,900

Crying Girl

Dillon Boy

Painting . 91.44 x 91.44 x 0.2 cm Painting . 36 x 36 x 0.1 inch

€2,490

Two Worlds

Mariia Kotiuzhynska

Painting . 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€1,160

Obey Icon

Shepard Fairey (Obey)

Painting . 68 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting . 26.8 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch

€11,500

Lion in red

James Mutisya

Painting . 50.5 x 118.5 x 2 cm Painting . 19.9 x 46.7 x 0.8 inch

€900

Bella

Fabien Novarino

Painting . 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

€1,900

Wildest Dream

Ayotunde Ayomide

Painting . 91.4 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting . 36 x 30 x 1.5 inch

€1,426

Auvergnat

Jean Tourlonias

Painting . 55 x 43 x 2 cm Painting . 21.7 x 16.9 x 0.8 inch

€2,100

s.t

Tonino Guerra

Painting . 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting . 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

€2,700

Golden Portrait with Cat

Sargis Zaqaryan

Painting . 35 x 24 x 2 cm Painting . 13.8 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch

€196

Loneliness

Maka Zedelashvili

Painting . 40 x 50 x 3 cm Painting . 15.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€1,600

Dress Code

Jean-Michel Cordier

Painting . 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch

€240

Beautiful in my own skin

Gobe Joseph

Painting . 100.3 x 71.1 x 6.4 cm Painting . 39.5 x 28 x 2.5 inch

€2,674

My Home

Daniel Owoeye

Painting . 91.4 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting . 36 x 24 x 1.5 inch

€2,006

Libellule

Lili Tao

Painting . 80 x 80 x 2.3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.9 inch

€3,650

Oum kalthoum, Yoko & Ono

Djénina Hagenburger

Painting . 122 x 92 x 2 cm Painting . 48 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch

€3,000

Buddha and Blues

Koorosh Nejad

Painting . 140 x 105.9 x 4.1 cm Painting . 55.1 x 41.7 x 1.6 inch

€2,025

Moment Alone - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Men

Emmanuel Daniel

Painting . 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting . 36 x 36 x 1 inch

€1,738

Miss Tic Tic Pochoir

Spaco

Painting . 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Painting . 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch

€90

Two Ethnic Women

Nicolle Menegaldo

Painting . 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€2,371

Mixte

Niki Neuts

Painting . 160 x 120 cm Painting . 63 x 47.2 inch

€3,500

Paris

Maxime Andriot

Painting . 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting . 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch

€760

My Own Sweet Solitude (3)

Georges Bassil

Painting . 39 x 30 cm Painting . 15.4 x 11.8 inch

€1,300

Adesuwa - 21st Century, Acrylic Canvas Painting, Contemporary Art, Africa

Barnabas Macauley

Painting . 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting . 30 x 24 x 1 inch

€1,471

French School Lady in Red in Provençal garden - Chut les Barbizons!

Bazévian Delacapucinière

Painting . 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch

€2,000

L, K and B Triptych. Mixed media portraits

Cristian Hunter

Photography . 74.9 x 179.8 x 0.3 cm Photography . 29.5 x 70.8 x 0.1 inch

€9,360

Singing in the rain

David Jamin

Painting . 46 x 61 x 2 cm Painting . 18.1 x 24 x 0.8 inch

€1,380

Sans titre

Valérie Depadova

Painting . 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

€340

Ray of Light

Gega Paksashvili

Painting . 150 x 130 x 2.6 cm Painting . 59.1 x 51.2 x 1 inch

€3,500

Super Girl

Odeth'

Painting . 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting . 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch

€3,097

Embraced (Love)

Waleria Matelska

Painting . 120 x 95 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch

€1,800

Brûler dans tes yeux

Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle

Painting . 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€850

Filled With Love

Beatha Theonest

Painting . 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting . 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch

€1,450

El Festejo

Enrique Pichardo

Painting . 70 x 108 x 1 cm Painting . 27.6 x 42.5 x 0.4 inch

€1,226

Sidera (Harmony) -21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Expression, Love, Couple

Olumide Ajayi

Painting . 116.8 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting . 46 x 36 x 1 inch

€2,006

Melody in her wings

Opeyemi Idowu

Painting . 111.8 x 91.4 x 6.4 cm Painting . 44 x 36 x 2.5 inch

€801

In the pool II

Marta Carceller

Painting . 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€1,950

Divinity

George Maskharashvili

Painting . 160 x 250 x 3 cm Painting . 63 x 98.4 x 1.2 inch

€9,700

Mélange

André.M

Painting . 72 x 60 x 3 cm Painting . 28.3 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch

€1,750

Prise de Ciel

Eva Romain

Painting . 116 x 81 cm Painting . 45.7 x 31.9 inch

€2,300

Nora

Gomor

Painting . 80 x 72 cm Painting . 31.5 x 28.3 inch

€2,750

Shana

Flu

Painting . 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting . 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch

€990

Afro Ebony Queen 4

Justice Ngwoke

Painting . 127 x 101.6 x 6.4 cm Painting . 50 x 40 x 2.5 inch

€1,382

Expectancy

Hassan Wasiu Sunday

Painting . 91.4 x 61 x 6.4 cm Painting . 36 x 24 x 2.5 inch

€1,025

Love is the Answer

Gardani Art

Painting . 124.5 x 99.1 x 3.8 cm Painting . 49 x 39 x 1.5 inch

€4,903

Self-Worth 2

Hezekiah Oyejide Obidare

Painting . 121.9 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting . 48 x 36 x 2 inch

€2,897

Nubile

Charles Osaro

Painting . 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting . 48 x 36 x 1 inch

€2,550

My Joy My Hope

Gobe Joseph

Painting . 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting . 36 x 36 x 1 inch

€2,719

Jeux de Plage

Valérie Betoulaud

Painting . 48 x 55 x 1 cm Painting . 18.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch

€1,350

Unbound -21st Century Contemporary, Surrealism, Portrait Modern, Child

Amiolemen Emmanuel

Painting . 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting . 36 x 36 x 1 inch

€3,119

Fougère

Florence Dussuyer

Painting . 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting . 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch

€5,100

Madonna and child

Olajide Kuti

Painting . 106.7 x 106.7 x 6.4 cm Painting . 42 x 42 x 2.5 inch

€2,674

Girl with a vase on her head

Gerardo La Porta

Painting . 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,100

La sieste - Nap in a 70's room

Léa Dedieu

Painting . 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

€2,200

Sky

Ewa Hauton

Painting . 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting . 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch

€3,900

Guitariste (BB King)

Flow

Painting . 89 x 130 x 2 cm Painting . 35 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch

€2,000

Ex voto

Kouka

Painting . 47 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting . 18.5 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch

€2,000

Robe rouge

Xavier Jambon

Painting . 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting . 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

€3,000

Ski & Mode N°3/20

Lydi

Painting . 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch

€190

Frida

Maria De Campos

Painting . 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch

€3,700

Al Despertar - Upon Awakening

Peperina Magenta

Print . 90.2 x 59.7 x 1.3 cm Print . 35.5 x 23.5 x 0.5 inch

€4,190

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