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![Painting, Enfant africain, Sounya Whang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156164_1_grid.jpg)
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Sans titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2916
Alberto Giacometti
Print - 44.5 x 32.5 cm Print - 17.5 x 12.8 inch
$10,914
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Architects Anonymous
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$528
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Shades of Grey
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$528
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Going In Circles
Alexander Benz
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$528
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Petit nu sur rocher cachant ses seins
Cade
Sculpture - 20 x 4 x 5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 1.6 x 2 inch
$2,183
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Femme coréenne s'habillant
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,114
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Portrait Femme coréenne
Sounya Whang
Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,114
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Lithographie originale de Yves Brayer
Yves Brayer
Print - 76 x 56 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$287
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Calligraphie
Hom Nguyen
Painting - 160 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 55.1 x 2 inch
Price upon request
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Composition
Hom Nguyen
Painting - 80 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
![Painting, Un monde meilleur, Hom Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2095629_1_grid.jpg)
Un monde meilleur
Hom Nguyen
Painting - 240 x 140 x 5 cm Painting - 94.5 x 55.1 x 2 inch
Price upon request
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Vincente Escudero
Yves Brayer
Fine Art Drawings - 31.2 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.3 x 9.3 inch
Sold
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Une femme sur un toit brûlant
Sylvia Galmot
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
Sold
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Puro... alegria
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
Sold
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The old mustache
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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La montée des eaux (2)
Fabienne Cresens
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
Sold
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La magie quotidienne (tête de femme)
Alberto Giacometti
Print - 41 x 28 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.1 x 11 x 0 inch
Sold
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Sans titre
Charles Lapicque
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 20.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.1 inch
Sold
Black and White Portraits
The allure of black and white. Color can articulate reality and reflect realism, but taking it away focuses on contrast and the use of monochromatic tone to set an atmosphere that draws the viewer in. This increase in impact has been harnessed by photographers since the first successful black and white images were taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in the early 19th century, leading to further success in 1825 when he managed to produce a black and white image of a window. Naturally colored photographs would not be developed until 1891 when Lipmann Gabriel applied the phenomenon of optical light wave interface. And yet, the black and white photograph continued, particularly in portraiture. Why? Practically, black and white photographs have a longer archival shelf-life but artistically, color isn’t needed to capture the emotion, depth, expression and indeed reality through dramatic tone and contrast of the figure in front of the lens. You only need to recant Dorothea Lange’s widely circulated Migrant Mother (1936) to see how a single black and white portrait can become a symbol of plight. In our works, artists like Maud Bernos and James Sparshatt favor portraits devoid of color… portraits that draw you the viewer in and leave you to fall into their enduring monochromatic depths.