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Dancer
Hubert Yencesse
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
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Portrait of Lenin
Albert Fernand-Renault
Painting - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
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Salade (Claudias as Jupiter)
Piet Rodriguez
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
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Sans titre
Jean-Baptiste Dumont
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
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Mademoiselle C
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 60 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
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Instinct
Lou Andréas Salomé Tauss
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
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Women
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 18.3 x 12.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.2 x 4.8 x 0 inch
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Masked Head
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
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At the sunset we are alive
Marie-Ange Daudé
Painting - 99 x 99 x 1 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 0.4 inch
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Trait D'union - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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Le portrait de trait - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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Le portrait de trait - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Trait D'union - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Brouillard de pensée - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 40 x 30 cm Print - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
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Trait D'union - Reproduction digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Brouillard de pensée - Digital Art digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Le portrait de trait - Reproduction digigraphie
Laurent Godard
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
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Le temps des soupirs
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 55 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 15 x 0.8 inch
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Maria Callas solitude
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Butterfly dream catcher's road trip
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Le Silence de la Mer
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
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New-York Central road trip
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Le poids des secrest
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
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Les murmures de l'amour
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 2 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
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Les sanglots de la mer
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 2 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
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Le café de la Place
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
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In the mood for desire
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
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Notre-Dame habillée de feu
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
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Le bistrot Les Antiquaires
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
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Le Ruban Bleu Le Normandie
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 33 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
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Le rêve du papillon
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Les voyages du Petit Prince
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 97 x 148 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 58.3 x 0.8 inch
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Chop Suey de Edward Hopper
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 65 x 72 x 1.8 cm Painting - 25.6 x 28.3 x 0.7 inch
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Mes mains qui courent
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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La madone au serpent
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Print - 62 x 46 x 3 cm Print - 24.4 x 18.1 x 1.2 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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Sitting Sensual Woman
Mino Maccari
Painting - 35 x 18.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 7.3 x 0.1 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
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Nude with Dogs
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 69 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
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Figures
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 37.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
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Nude
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 8.5 x 0 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
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Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
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Women from another century
YZ (Yzeult)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Credendo Vides 017
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…