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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Print, Two Men, Franco Gentilini

Franco Gentilini

Print - 65 x 48 x 0.1 cm Print - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0 inch

€850

Print, Eyes, Nobless

Nobless

Print - 60 x 75 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0 inch

€500

Print, Untitled, Alvar Suñol

Alvar Suñol

Print - 86 x 61 x 0.1 cm Print - 33.9 x 24 x 0 inch

€1,200

Print, Pensive, Malcolm T. Liepke

Malcolm T. Liepke

Print - 50.8 x 38.1 x 5.1 cm Print - 20 x 15 x 2 inch

€2,501

Print, Les yeux, Max Papart

Max Papart

Print - 56 x 76 x 0.02 cm Print - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch

€450

Print, Duo, Antoni Muntadas

Duo

Antoni Muntadas

Print - 74 x 95 x 0.02 cm Print - 29.1 x 37.4 x 0 inch

€1,000

Painting, Bowie, Talion

Talion

Painting - 75 x 75 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0 inch

€900

Print, Iago, Charles Lapicque

Charles Lapicque

Print - 57 x 38 cm Print - 22.4 x 15 inch

€300

Print, Le Couple, Georges Braque

Georges Braque

Print - 62.5 x 40 x 0.1 cm Print - 24.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch

€650

Print, Coppola, Dean Tavoularis

Dean Tavoularis

Print - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Print - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

€2,000

Print, Pour Jorn, Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj

Print - 75 x 54 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.3 inch

€290

Print, Clown, Enrico Benaglia

Enrico Benaglia

Print - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch

€320

Print, Die Heilige, Thomas Ott

Thomas Ott

Print - 41 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.1 x 13.8 x 0 inch

€250

Photography, Tan Lines, Miles Aldridge

Miles Aldridge

Photography - 134 x 180 cm Photography - 52.8 x 70.9 inch

€16,000

Photography, Hello (3), Miles Aldridge

Miles Aldridge

Photography - 73.5 x 95 cm Photography - 28.9 x 37.4 inch

€6,200

Print, Lithographie, Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

Print - 55.9 x 85.6 x 0.2 cm Print - 22 x 33.7 x 0.1 inch

€850

Print, L'enlèvement, Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini

Print - 60.7 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch

€850

Print, Child, Enrico Benaglia

Enrico Benaglia

Print - 50 x 35 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch

€420

Print, The Rescue, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch

€360

Print, King, Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa

Print - 50 x 38 cm Print - 19.7 x 15 inch

€400

Print, Untitled, Gabriel Rigo

Gabriel Rigo

Print - 77 x 55 cm Print - 30.3 x 21.7 inch

€222