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Untitled
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 12.2 x 0 inch
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Model
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 43 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.9 x 13.8 x 0 inch
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Morandi or Molotoff
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.5 x 0 inch
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Essence V
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Perspectives
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 22.5 x 27.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.9 x 10.8 x 0.1 inch
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We Are All The Same / Geisha
Insane 51
Painting - 135 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
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Trapezist
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 31.8 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.5 x 0.2 inch
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Study for a Scenography
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
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The X Ray
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
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Trojan Horse
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0 inch
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The girl from Ipanema
Julien Cuny
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
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Profil d'homme
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 6.9 x 0 inch
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Portrait de Jean Genet
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 12.2 inch
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Portrait
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 7.9 x 0 inch
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Portrait
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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L'entretien de la blessure
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 9.3 inch
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Vanité aux papillons bleus
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 195 x 40 x 50 cm Sculpture - 76.8 x 15.7 x 19.7 inch
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La dernière chasse
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 300 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.2 inch
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Personnage sombre allongée
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 26 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.2 inch
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Gueule d'ange N°19
Stephane Richard
Painting - 68.3 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 26.9 x 19.3 x 0.4 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…