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!

Duo

Catherine Cauvin

Sculpture . 40 x 20 x 5 cm Sculpture . 15.7 x 7.9 x 2 inch

€550

Gitane

R. Luzio

Painting . 72 x 96 x 2 cm Painting . 28.3 x 37.8 x 0.8 inch

€1,079

Red miniature

Marianna Sztyma

Painting . 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting . 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch

€890

Ceci n'est pas un auto - portrait dans ma cuisine

Djénina Hagenburger

Painting . 122 x 93 x 2 cm Painting . 48 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch

€3,000

Sans titre

Cédric Bouteiller

Painting . 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting . 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch

€14,000

Porteur de cœurs

Max Rovira

Painting . 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting . 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch

€3,500

Flora

Irena Aizen

Print . 50 x 48 x 2.5 cm Print . 19.7 x 18.9 x 1 inch

€1,160

Baj Chez Picasso 1 (Weeping Woman)

Enrico Baj

Print . 71.1 x 49.5 cm Print . 28 x 19.5 inch

€2,712

Portrait, Original Gouche on Paper, Custom Framed

Rolph Scarlett

Painting . 45.4 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting . 17.87 x 23.62 x 0.1 inch

€2,712

Le trio de pécheurs au poisson série Mer et Océan

Philippe Messager

Painting . 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€850

The Last Spilled Drop

Alex Carr

Painting . 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting . 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch

€2,775

Seeing in Color

Svetlana Cheraud

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

€2,000

Dama de las orquídeas

Eduardo Helguera

Painting . 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

€1,900

Sentinelle

Renée Duval

Painting . 76 x 91 x 3 cm Painting . 29.9 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch

€2,350

Urban Jane

Lasveguix

Print . 70 x 50 x 3 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch

€2,100

Une ville bien fête (Miss.Tic & Francky Boy)

Miss.Tic

Painting . 33 x 55 x 2 cm Painting . 13 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch

€6,600

Dragon Vert

Wifredo Lam

Print . 76 x 57 cm Print . 29.9 x 22.4 inch

€800

Silken dress - Série portrait de femme

Michel Verclytte

Painting . 24 x 18 x 0.1 cm Painting . 9.4 x 7.1 x 0 inch

€200

Tale of the Girl and Flamingo

Fiorenza Gorini

Painting . 53.3 x 53.3 x 2 cm Painting . 21 x 21 x 0.8 inch

€1,853

David

Patrick Zévaco

Painting . 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting . 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch

€3,800

Radôh L'ange de "dieu"/ Avant pour signe le sang qui veut dire guerre .

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 39 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 15.4 inch

€1,300

Bouba

Flora Gueton

Sculpture . 100 x 100 x 11 cm Sculpture . 39.4 x 39.4 x 4.3 inch

€1,900

Hands

Philippe Vignal

Print . 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Print . 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

€180

Self Portrait

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Print . 29 x 21 x 0.5 cm Print . 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch

€2,900

Sanctuary 1

Franklin Ifeanyi Igwenagu

Painting . 88.9 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting . 35 x 30 x 1.5 inch

€2,332

ToccO Hio

ZuZ Frederic Zuzek

Painting . 100 x 100 x 0.4 cm Painting . 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.2 inch

€4,500

Brigitte Bardot

Abyléa

Painting . 75 x 75 x 5 cm Painting . 29.5 x 29.5 x 2 inch

€950

Mother At Sunrise

Paul Akiiki

Painting . 100 x 40 x 0.8 cm Painting . 39.4 x 15.7 x 0.3 inch

€1,085

Tête sur fond vert

Lucebert

Painting . 32 x 23 x 0.05 cm Painting . 12.6 x 9.1 x 0 inch

€1,800

Sincerity of Purpose -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism

Wisdom Uche

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

€2,034

Salomé

Bernard Pras

Sculpture . 81 x 80 cm Sculpture . 31.9 x 31.5 inch

€20,000

Carnival

Alexander Litvinov

Painting . 94 x 112 x 2 cm Painting . 37 x 44.1 x 0.8 inch

€1,400

Dreaming in bloom

Viet Ha Tran

Photography . 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography . 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch

€800

Inclinaison

Nadège Dauvergne

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

€2,500

Encre I

Maylis Bourdet

Fine Art Drawings . 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch

€560

Titanomachie

Timothy Archer

Painting . 140 x 140 x 5 cm Painting . 55.1 x 55.1 x 2 inch

€7,500

John Lennon posing for the Walls And Bridges album cover, NYC

Bob Gruen

Photography . 50.8 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography . 20 x 24 x 2 inch

€2,712

L'Amateur de Cigare

Antonio Segui

Print . 62 x 45 cm Print . 24.4 x 17.7 inch

€950

Even in Pain - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern, Love

Awofadeju Solomon

Painting . 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting . 60 x 48 x 1 inch

€4,384

Gang rouge

Hervé Maury

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

€820

Figure sur fond noir

Serge Labégorre

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

€12,000

Le Cavalier – Color lithograph on Arches paper – 1968

Pablo Picasso

Print . 64.5 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 25.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€9,000

Drowning

Gerard Boersma

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

€2,600

Connecting the dots Collection Plate #3

Lena Bera-Pancini

Design . 26 x 26 x 2.5 cm Design . 10.2 x 10.2 x 1 inch

€150

Carnaval

Stéphanie Caroline Guerzoni

Painting . 52 x 50 x 1 cm Painting . 20.5 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch

€1,192

Black Girl in Origami Dress with Rooste II, Framed

Efren Isaza

Painting . 111.8 x 182.9 x 2.5 cm Painting . 44 x 72 x 1 inch

€13,559

History of painting

Dine Chanima

Print . 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Print . 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch

€990

Réflexion de la Séduction....

Franck Savoye (Francky)

Painting . 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting . 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch

€2,500

La fille à la rose

Sufyr

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

€2,700

Ronin

Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze

Painting . 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting . 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch

€1,600

Mother and Child

Ly Hung Anh

Painting . 149.9 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting . 59 x 48 x 2 inch

€4,701

Heroes Not From Our Woods

Anna Voronina

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

€1,446

The girl in red

Caro Graffiti

Sculpture . 44.5 x 27 x 6 cm Sculpture . 17.5 x 10.6 x 2.4 inch

€1,350

Trapping the Night

Miyuki Takanashi

Painting . 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting . 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch

€2,900

Le titre

BEHOA

Painting . 65 x 50 x 5 cm Painting . 25.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch

€2,000

Broom

Martin Kippenberger

Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

€890

C'est presque le week-end

Maxime Frairot

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

€1,200

Thoughts to a cute line

Procach Olesia

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

€1,635

Poséida

Horss

Painting . 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch

€2,500

Ostende et le pantographe

Joël Kermarrec

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

€2,200

While The World Decay (Fluro)

Snik

Painting . 48.7 x 102.7 x 0.2 cm Painting . 19.2 x 40.4 x 0.1 inch

€3,500

Demain après-midi

Erte Tirtoff

Fine Art Drawings . 35.5 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 14 x 10.2 x 0 inch

€3,800

Marilyn Monroe: The Last Sitting Portfolio 4

Bert Stern

Photography . 61 x 61 cm Photography . 24 x 24 inch

€27,119

Giano

Massimiliano Pelletti

Sculpture . 40 x 20 x 34 cm Sculpture . 15.7 x 7.9 x 13.4 inch

€42,000

Portofino

Frédéric Batard

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

€1,967

Tête

Hans Bouman

Painting . 69 x 50.5 x 0.1 cm Painting . 27.2 x 19.9 x 0 inch

€950

Femme en blanc sur la plage

Rene Lelong

Painting . 29 x 54 x 3 cm Painting . 11.4 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch

€1,900

N° 1284 La Croix-Rousse. Salve, o philosophus.

R. Cavalié

Painting . 33 x 46 x 2 cm Painting . 13 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch

€520

Maria and the Callas #2268. Homage to Horst P. Horst limited edition photograph

Natasha Zupan

Photography . 152.4 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography . 60 x 60 x 0.1 inch

€4,520

Insight 4

Oluwafemi Afolabi

Painting . 61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm Painting . 24 x 18 x 1 inch

€1,898

Rubik Kubrick Clockwork Orange (Alex)

Invader

Print . 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print . 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch

€10,218

Africa Queen 1

Enrica Ciffo

Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€540 €486

3 Milliards

Alben

Painting . 145 x 125 x 3 cm Painting . 57.1 x 49.2 x 1.2 inch

€12,700

FabuLLeuse 1

B.AX

Painting . 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting . 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch

€990

Nen

Alicia Grau

Painting . 33 x 44 x 2 cm Painting . 13 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch

€900

Evening at the Bar

Ruslana Levandovska

Painting . 61 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting . 24 x 30 x 0.8 inch

€8,647

Souvenirs

Audrey Faivre

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

€3,580

Lady with Fur

Antonio Feltrinelli

Painting . 105 x 76 x 0.7 cm Painting . 41.3 x 29.9 x 0.3 inch

€6,400

Harbor 10, 2006

Alex Katz

Print . 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

€6,200

Metropolis

Irina Shark

Sculpture . 34 x 13 x 23 cm Sculpture . 13.4 x 5.1 x 9.1 inch

€5,500

Marché de Monségur

Hippolyte Romain

Fine Art Drawings . 41 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.1 x 12.2 inch

€850

Agora

ARySQUE

Painting . 116 x 146 x 2.5 cm Painting . 45.7 x 57.5 x 1 inch

€1,900

El Keif Le Drogué Ou Perdu Dans La Fumée

Hamed Abdalla

Painting . 44 x 32 cm Painting . 17.3 x 12.6 inch

€4,000

Wild Grace Within

Tigran Araqelyan

Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch

€814

Femme parfaite I – Serville

Patricia Dubois

Painting . 113 x 150 x 3 cm Painting . 44.5 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch

€3,637

Harmonic Sounds

Jules Courvoisier

Painting . 95 x 71 x 2 cm Painting . 37.4 x 28 x 0.8 inch

€1,885

Femme paysanne

Alessandro Pomi

Painting . 68 x 45 x 2 cm Painting . 26.8 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,589

Style mosaïque

Charles-Auguste Humbert

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

€2,265

Hope #7

Raf Urban

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

€950

Bazaar Kate Moss Coiffe Amériendienne

Pola 4.0

Painting . 100 x 75 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch

€5,900

Apparences

Shank Arte

Painting . 35 x 45 x 2 cm Painting . 13.8 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch

€1,360

Blue in Sunlight - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Hyperrealism, Africa

Falope Ibrahim

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

€1,898

Echoes of Laughter: A Surreal Chaplin Portrait

Artush Voskanyan

Painting . 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting . 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch

€10,848

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