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Nu masculin vu de face
Claudio Locatelli
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 21 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$830
Lady in Lace
Tran Huy Hoan
Photography - 96.5 x 88.9 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38 x 35 x 0.25 inch
$4,000
Studies for an academic drawing of the silent majority 1
Wang Kai Chen
Fine Art Drawings - 85 x 65 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$3,098
Triptomatic. Death to the Hallmark Holliday
Carl Pascuzzi
Photography - 31 x 46 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$775
Nude in the Grand Canyon
Balbyshev Oleksandr
Painting - 85.1 x 125 x 2.5 cm Painting - 33.5 x 49.2 x 1 inch
$4,300
Bronze omnia vincit amor
Andréa Giorgi
Sculpture - 28 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$7,745
I've made peace...with my body
Blair Treuer
Painting - 100 x 84 x 8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.1 x 3.1 inch
$13,289
Conjuring Hermaphrodite
Linet Andréa
Painting - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,315
Sylvana Lorenz by Sylvana Lorenz Rime pour Prince Pierre
Sylvana Lorenz
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,084
Pose 2
Nadine Defer
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$432
Amuleto- B&W Photograph Portrait of the artist Framed
Marta María Pérez Bravo
Photography - 48.9 x 38.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.25 x 15.25 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Homo motus ruby #18
Alexis "Bust" Stephens
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,656
Carmen #2
José Pirès
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.2 inch
$531
Young Woman Sleeping (Early 20th Century Modern Nude Portrait), Serge Henry Moreau
Serge Henry Moreau
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,952
Palme de la Victoire
Pierre Le Faguays
Sculpture - 42 x 11 x 12 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 4.3 x 4.7 inch
$3,873
L'intemporelle Joconde
Joël Moens
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,362
Transparence des ailes du papilon
KLA
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,987
Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 74.9 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,379
Nude Carla Bruni, Harper Bazaar 1992
Philipe Robert
Photography - 100 x 75 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 2 inch
$12,171
Anna patiently
Stàn Bert Singer
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
$5,975
Not clear at all
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$11,950
Saint Jérôme en méditation
Thomas Bambini
Painting - 114 x 79 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,631 $8,199
Sanguine ref 1
Jean Laniau
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$266
The Dancer
Maurice Van Moppes
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.2 inch
$332
Bedtimes
Oeno
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 144 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 56.7 x 1 inch
$7,192
Two
Anna Lageda
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$443
Reclined figure
Georges Pierre
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$221
Sitting Woman
Jacques Le Breton
Fine Art Drawings - 28.7 x 15.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.3 x 6 x 0 inch
$332
1980 Liaisons dangereuses The dangerous affairs LOVE
Serge Stephanie
Print - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$321
Tiempo nuestro (from Porfolio Grabados Cubanos)
Ernesto Garcia Peña
Print - 59.7 x 44.7 cm Print - 23.5 x 17.6 inch
$500
Photographie intervenue 'Punctum'
Mirco Marcacci
Photography - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$332
Portrait sur plan de rivière
Valérie Evrard
Photography - 22 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$443
Femme à lunette
Luc Masson-Todeschini
Photography - 27.6 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 10.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$332
What’s Kept Inside
Maisha De la Cruz
Painting - 123 x 214 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 84.3 x 0.4 inch
$9,731
Emulando a Allen Jones
Enrique Cattaneo
Print - 38.1 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 15 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$300
The elegant life of Mr H Paris 1967
Key Hiraga
Painting - 65 x 54 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$38,727 $23,236
Shijunku99 - Beauty - #002 - Cerisier du Japon
Davis Y
Photography - 20 x 20 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$166
Petra, le diptyque
Edith Simonnet
Painting - 240 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 94.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,733
Liberation
Tatjana Rusakova
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 11 x 0 inch
$332
Woman
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$885
Gucci Cruise, Cannes
Martin Parr
Photography - 112 x 162 x 1 cm Photography - 44.1 x 63.8 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
Signs I
Ekene Stanley Emecheta
Painting - 75 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
Vers l'équilibre... : Villars-sur-Ollon (CH)
Saype
Photography - 124 x 116 x 1 cm Photography - 48.8 x 45.7 x 0.4 inch
Price upon request
Sun
Mariela Garibay
Sculpture - 35 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
Price upon request
556
Simon Berger
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 10.2 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 4 inch
Price upon request
Yes he could really dance, and I could dance too
Sophie Westerlind
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Glance Towards the Oblivion
Fathi Hassan
Photography - 76 x 50 cm Photography - 29.9 x 19.7 inch
Price upon request
Transition - visage
Samuel Yal
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 10 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 inch
Price upon request
Anima Angeli
Sabine Danzé
Fine Art Drawings - 95 x 80 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 37.4 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
Price upon request
Haute Couture
Sabine Danzé
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
Schisme #2
Erwann Tirilly
Painting - 84 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 33.1 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
Price upon request
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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!