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Young Until Death
Nathan Chantob
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$16,084
No body-prager town
Nathan Chantob
Painting - 150 x 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 59.1 inch
$17,233
Six kilometres
Nathan Chantob
Painting - 150 x 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 59.1 inch
$17,233
Conflict
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$460
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Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 11.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 4.5 x 0 inch
$747
Black Iris - Size S
Clara Diebler
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$172
Hiawatha Parlor Car
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 27 x 22 x 1.8 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.7 inch
$862
Bright path - Size XS
Clara Diebler
Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 4.7 x 3.1 x 0 inch
$115
Black Iris - Size XS
Clara Diebler
Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 4.7 x 3.1 x 0 inch
$115
La Délicate - Size XS
Clara Diebler
Photography - 12 x 8 x 0.1 cm Photography - 4.7 x 3.1 x 0 inch
$115
Queen of Flowers - Format XS
Clara Diebler
Photography - 12 x 8 x 1 cm Photography - 4.7 x 3.1 x 0.4 inch
$115
Bright path - Size S
Clara Diebler
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$172
La Délicate - Size S
Clara Diebler
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$172
Queen of Flowers - Format S
Clara Diebler
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$172
Couple Reading
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7 x 4.7 x 0 inch
$689
Rimbaud, Boulevard Saint-Michel
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Print - 80 x 60 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$1,149
Liberté de penser
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,068 $1,861
Blonde Brune Rousse
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 115 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,413
Retrato imaginario de Goya
Antonio Saura
Print - 61 x 91 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 35.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,494
Empty Paintings on The Wall
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 144 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 56.7 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$8,157
La tête à l'envers
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 80 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$724
Ma belle aventure
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,825
You lose control
Lucile Callegari
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,332
Preparing the pan
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 25.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 10 x 6.5 x 0.2 inch
$600
Autoportrait II
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,757
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…