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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Women
Guelfo Bianchini
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 36 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$952
A Couple
Jeanne Daour
Fine Art Drawings - 14.7 x 21 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$595
La ciudad de los condenados
Victor Coll
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
La plage à Biarritz
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,619
Autoportrait
Frederic Weisz
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$952
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,393
Girl drinking an egg
Kateryna Krivchach
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$850
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
$2,619
Portrait
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$595
Arara V - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$8,096
La valse
Élisabeth Gineste (Sitelle)
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,262
Mann mit weissem Hemd
Stephan Balkenhol
Print - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$26,787
Duo - sculpture scène de vie homme et femme
Cécile Robert-Sermage
Sculpture - 34 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$863
Pink Hawaii 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Toni Frissell
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.001 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$941
Among Flowers
Anyck Alvarez Kerloch
Painting - 81.3 x 58.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 32 x 23 x 0.2 inch
$555
Girl
Nino Cordio
Fine Art Drawings - 44.5 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$655
Portrait
Serge Fontinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 35.5 x 23.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 9.3 x 0.1 inch
$691
Portrait of Arab
Jean Louis Plumet
Fine Art Drawings - 29.2 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$655
1866812
Alain Patrick Korenberg
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,786
The Mac Chicken
Zo
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$696
Zoro
Christian Zeimert
Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0.2 inch
$952
Portrait d'Antonin Artaud
Jean Olivier Hucleux
Print - 75 x 55 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$714
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
$2,143
Open Self Model (Single Green Female)
Carroll Dunham
Print - 78.7 x 64.8 cm Print - 31 x 25.5 inch
$2,727
Liberation
Natalia Pettersson
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,893 $5,304
Études pour les passants
Michel Houssin
Fine Art Drawings - 38.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.2 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$655
Nai (Identity Assertions Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 36.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 14.4 x 0 inch
$952
2A24 - Portrait axé sur le regard
Dominique Fonteneau
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,161
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
$31,618
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
$738
Blue Towel 2
Olamilekan Bello
Painting - 99.8 x 79.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 31.3 x 1 inch
$2,200
Hommage to Antonello da Messina
Renato Guttuso
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.3 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
$595