Face Painting for Sale

The face occupies a fundamental place in the history of painting as a territory for exploring identity, emotion, and human presence in all its complexity. A central subject since Renaissance portraiture, where likeness and the sitter's dignity were the primary criteria of pictorial success, it gradually became a field of experimentation as modern art moved away from strict demands of faithful representation.

With Expressionism, the face becomes the privileged site of a tormented interiority, distorted and intensified to convey emotional states that realism could not contain. Amedeo Modigliani elongates and distills it into archetype, Pablo Picasso fragments and recomposes it through simultaneous perspectives, while Francis Bacon subjects it to radical distortions that turn it into a carrier of deeply modern existential anxiety.

These legacies continue to inform contemporary creation, where portraiture unfolds across a plurality of approaches—figurative and abstract, graphic and urban, intimate and conceptual. Painterly material, color, and gesture play a role as decisive as resemblance itself, turning the face into both a site of visual investigation and a narrative surface charged with meaning.

On Artsper, this selection brings together contemporary works in which the face becomes a central motif explored in its formal diversity, showing the portrait's enduring ability to reinvent its languages while remaining anchored in essential questions of identity, perception, and the representation of the human.

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Painting, Depths of the Soul, Jane Nee

Jane Nee

Painting . 41 x 53 x 2 cm Painting . 16.1 x 20.9 x 0.8 inch

€546

Painting, The glass, Samiran Boruah

Samiran Boruah

Painting . 110 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting . 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch

€600

Painting, Judge me not, Ronnie Jiang

Ronnie Jiang

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

€3,200

Painting, Amanda, Pol Ledent

Pol Ledent

Painting . 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€700

Painting, Body Language, Ronnie Jiang

Ronnie Jiang

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

€3,200

Painting, Ref 173B, Gerard Di Maccio

Gerard Di Maccio

Painting . 52 x 101 x 8 cm Painting . 20.5 x 39.8 x 3.1 inch

€11,000

Painting, White, Sa Hara

Sa Hara

Painting . 40.9 x 31.8 x 3 cm Painting . 16.1 x 12.5 x 1.2 inch

€500

Painting, Jumelles, Thalia Dalecky

Thalia Dalecky

Painting . 34.5 x 28 x 0.1 cm Painting . 13.6 x 11 x 0 inch

€320

Painting, Expansion, Mr Cenz

Mr Cenz

Painting . 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting . 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch

€7,800

Painting, Blue Magic, Fresha D

Fresha D

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

€950

Painting, Gorgo, Marie Constantelli

Marie Constantelli

Painting . 94 x 74 x 1 cm Painting . 37 x 29.1 x 0.4 inch

€240

Painting, Gelede, Rocio Mazuecos

Rocio Mazuecos

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

€725

Painting, Fetiche, Daniel De polignac

Daniel De polignac

Painting . 130 x 97 x 2.5 cm Painting . 51.2 x 38.2 x 1 inch

€950

Painting, Simon, Sandra Boskamp

Sandra Boskamp

Painting . 61 x 50.8 x 1.3 cm Painting . 24 x 20 x 0.5 inch

€546

Painting, Me voilage, Bruno Feitussi

Bruno Feitussi

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

€750

Painting, Perou 1, Nicolas Jesbac

Nicolas Jesbac

Painting . 18 x 14 x 2 cm Painting . 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inch

€100

Painting, Le bain, Odin Pigelet

Odin Pigelet

Painting . 38 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting . 15 x 22 x 0 inch

€320

Painting, HAPPY ENDING, Stef Basias

Stef Basias

Painting . 40 x 60 x 2.4 cm Painting . 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.9 inch

€570

Painting, Masque, Damien Legrain

Damien Legrain

Painting . 30 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 35.4 x 1 inch

€330

Painting, Deux, Anton

Anton

Painting . 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch

€700

Painting, Expression, Flow

Flow

Painting . 60 x 60 x 3.5 cm Painting . 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.4 inch

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