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N° 1 Imi Knoebel Documented profile
Born Klaus Wolf Knoebel in Dessau in 1940, Imi Knoebel explores the basic resources of abstract painting. He studied at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt from 1962 to 1964, then with…
CHF 320’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Germany Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
www.mirabaud.com ↗galerieputman.com ↗www.hauskonstruktiv.ch ↗www.hauskonstruktiv.ch ↗ -
N° 2 Isaac Levitan Documented profile
Isaac Levitan, who was born in 1860 and died in 1900, studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, including under Alexei Savrasov and Vasily Polenov. His la…
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N° 3 Ivan Aivazovsky Documented profile
Marine painting is central to Ivan Aïvazovski’s reputation: sources attribute more than 6,000 works to him, about half of them seascapes. When painting, he worked from memory, guided…
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N° 4 Ivan Pokhitonov Documented profile
Born in Matrionovka in the Kherson governorate, Ivan Pokhitonov (1850–1923) initially followed a path outside art schools. After schooling in Elisavetgrad and Nikolaev, he studied ag…
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N° 5 Ilya Bolotowsky Documented profile
Ilya Bolotowsky emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923. A founding member of American Abstract Artists, he developed paintings based on relationships between geometric fo…
CHF 16’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗United States Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
americanart.si.edu ↗www.blackmountaincollege.org ↗www.newpaltz.edu ↗empirestateplaza.ny.gov ↗ -
N° 6 Ivan Contreras-Brunet Documented profile
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1927, Ivan Contreras-Brunet made his first paintings in the early 1940s; he died in Vendôme, France, in 2021. After these early works, he attended courses…
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N° 7 István Nyári Documented profile
István Nyári, born in Budapest in 1952, graduated in advertising graphics from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts in 1977. He began making fine art in 1978 while also designing re…
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N° 8 Iran Darroudi Documented profile
Iran Darroudi brought together painting, writing and film. She studied painting in Paris, stained glass in Brussels and art history at the École du Louvre. Her imaginary landscapes p…
CHF 13’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Iran Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
www.irandarroudi.com ↗www.farhang.org ↗toosfoundation.com ↗ariaart.gallery ↗ -
N° 9 Ivan Theimer Documented profile
Ivan Theimer, born in Olomouc in 1944, developed a practice as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman between France and Tuscany. He left Czechoslovakia in 1968. His language draws on t…
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N° 10 Isaac Snowman Documented profile
Isaac Snowman developed a painting practice in which portraiture and scenes of Jewish life played important roles. After attending the City of London School, he entered the Royal Aca…
CHF 8’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 11 Ivan Rabuzin Documented profile
Croatian naïve painter Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) is placed in this movement by one source as early as 1946. Born in Ključ on 27 March 1921, he died in Varaždin on 18 December 2008. He…
CHF 7’884Highest documented result in CHF · frais inclusReference profile ↗Croatia Reference profile ↗ -
N° 12 Ignaz Raffalt Documented profile
Ignaz Raffalt (1800–1857) studied at the Vienna Academy from 1820 to 1825, with teachers including Johann Peter Krafft and Josef Mössmer. After running the family inn in Murau, he ac…
CHF 6’500Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
sammlung.belvedere.at ↗austria-forum.org ↗www.gedaechtnisdeslandes.at ↗sammlung.wienmuseum.at ↗ -
N° 13 Ismael González de la Serna Documented profile
Ismael de la Serna, a Spanish painter active notably in Paris, explored relationships between figuration and abstraction. Cubism informed his still lifes: in Bodegón of 1926–1927, he…
CHF 6’080Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Spain Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
www.museosdeandalucia.es ↗www.museosdeandalucia.es ↗www.alhambra-patronato.es ↗www.getty.edu ↗ -
N° 14 Ippolito Caffi Documented profile
Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866), born in Belluno and trained at the Venice Academy, renewed the painting of urban views in the nineteenth century. In Rome and during journeys through Ital…
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N° 15 Iosif Iser Documented profile
Romanian painter and draughtsman Iosif Iser trained in Munich before working as a cartoonist and spending time in Paris. His contributions to the press accompanied a sustained engage…
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N° 16 Issachar Ber Ryback Documented profile
Issachar Ber Ryback, born in Elisabethgrad in 1897, who died in Paris in 1935, trained in Kyiv within a milieu receptive to the avant-garde. In 1916 he joined El Lissitzky in a surve…
CHF 4’800Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
ls.vanabbemuseum.nl ↗collections.heritage.brussels ↗benuri.org ↗www.posenlibrary.com ↗ -
N° 17 Ida Barbarigo Documented profile
Ida Barbarigo, born Cadorin in Venice, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts with her father Guido Cadorin and Arturo Martini. She moved to Paris in 1952 and adopted the name Barbarigo…
CHF 4’500Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Italy Reference profile ↗ -
N° 18 Irving Petlin Documented profile
Irving Burnell Petlin, an American artist born in Chicago on December 17, 1934, and who died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on September 1, 2018, took part in the exhibition No…
CHF 3’600Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗United States Reference profile ↗ -
N° 19 Ivan Puni Documented profile
Jean Pougny, also known as Ivan Puni, was a French-Russian painter who died in Paris in 1956. During his first stay in Paris, beginning in 1910, he attended the Académie Julian and e…
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N° 20 Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola Documented profile
Innocenzo da Imola, also known as Innocenzo Francucci, developed a religious painting practice attentive to Raphael’s models. His career connected Imola with Bologna, where he receiv…
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N° 21 Ipolit Strâmbu Documented profile
Born in Bratilovu in 1871, Ipolit Strâmbu studied fine arts in Bucharest and Munich. His stay in Paris in 1901 contributed to the exchanges that led to Tinerimea Artistică, an associ…
CHF 2’200Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Romania Reference profile ↗ -
N° 22 Ilija Bosilj Documented profile
Ilija Bašičević, known as Ilija Bosilj, was born and died in Šid. He was born there in 1895, when the town belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in 1972. After about four…
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N° 23 Italo Mus Documented profile
Italo Mus, also known as Joseph-Italo Mus, was born in Châtillon on 24 April 1892 and died in Saint-Vincent on 15 May 1967. His first artistic training took place in his father’s wor…
CHF 1’497Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Italy Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 24 Isaac de Moucheron Documented profile
A North Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, printmaker and ornamental designer, Isaac de Moucheron produced a body of work in which architecture occupies a major place. His activity…
CHF 1’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
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N° 25 István Boldizsár Documented profile
István Boldizsár (1897–1984), born in Orosháza, belonged to the tradition of the Nagybánya artists’ colony. As a Budapest student, he encountered this milieu in the late 1910s before…
CHF 1’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Hungary Reference profile ↗ -
N° 26 Ina Barfuss Documented profile
Born in 1949, Ina Barfuss is presented as a German textile artist. Her name also appears in the spelling Ina Barfuß. The reverse of Tanzsaal bears the inscription “Barfuss, 81, Tanzs…
CHF 650Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Germany Reference profile ↗Additional references (1)
www.germannauktionen.ch ↗ -
N° 27 Ignat Bednarik Documented profile
Ignat Bednarik (1882–1963) was a Romanian artist born in Orșova who died in Bucharest. His practice brought together painting, illustration and decorative art, an area in which he al…
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N° 28 Ibrahim Hussein Documented profile
Ibrahim Hussein, born in Kedah in 1936 and deceased in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, studied in Singapore and then in London at the Byam Shaw School and Royal Academy Schools. His career con…
CHF 500Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Malaysia Reference profile ↗Additional references (4)
galeri.khazanah.com.my ↗www.buru.org.uk ↗collection.ilhamgallery.com ↗museum.um.edu.my ↗ -
N° 29 Isidore Rosenstock Documented profile
Isidore Rosenstock (1880–1956), born in Strasbourg and deceased in Paris, developed a body of work in which watercolour held a privileged place. He exhibited regularly at the Salon d…
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N° 30 Isao Utsumiya Documented profile
Isao Utsumiya, born in Morioka in 1945, is a Japanese artist who settled in France in 1967, the year he graduated from Musashino Art University. Soon after arriving, he became known…
CHF 250Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Japan Reference profile ↗ -
N° 31 Ida Kerkovius Documented profile
The German painter and weaver Ida Kerkovius, also described as German-Baltic, pursued a practice combining painting and textile arts. At the age of eighteen, she began training at a…
CHF 150Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Latvia Reference profile ↗
Countries reflect citizenships recorded in the source and may be incomplete. Reference profiles open the indicated source and do not imply that works are available at the gallery.
GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026