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Juan Genovés Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter and graphic artist Juan Genovés Candel—also known in Catalan as Joan Genovés i Candel—developed a body of work shaped by the repressive context of the Franco dict…
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José Camarón y Bonanat Documented profileSpain
José Camarón Boronat, also named José Camarón Bonanat by some biographers, was a Spanish painter and printmaker born in Segorbe in 1731. His practice encompassed painting, miniature…
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Jaber Al Mahjoub Documented profileTunisia
Jaber Al Mahjoub’s work brings together several media and materials: gouache, acrylic painting and sculptures made with plaster bandages, to which a sales notice adds papier-mâché. D…
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Josep Maria Mallol Suazo Documented profileSpain
The Catalan painter Josep Maria Mallol Suazo (1910–1986), also listed under his full name, Josep Maria Benet Agustí Ignasi Mallol Suazo, had a career marked by exhibitions and awards…
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Jan Philip van Thielen Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Philip van Thielen (1618–1667), a Flemish painter born in Mechelen, specialised in flower painting. His work consists mainly of bouquets, arrangements and garlands, exploring dif…
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Johann Jakob Serr Documented profileGermany
A portrait painter, but also a poet and musician, Johann Jakob Serr (1807–1880) is presented as a German artist born in Rhodt, in the Palatinate, and who died in Heidelberg. In Herbs…
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Jan Thorn Prikker Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch artist Jan Thorn Prikker, also known as Johan Thorn Prikker, Jan Thorn-Prikker, Johan Thorn-Prikker and J. Thorn Prikker, teaches Heinrich Campendonk at the School of Appli…
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Jutta Koether Documented profileGermany
Jutta Koether, a German painter, musician, theorist and critic born in Cologne in 1958, lives and works between Berlin and New York. In the early 1980s, she became involved in Cologn…
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Jan Meerhout Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known by several forms of his name, including Johan Meerhoud and Jan Meerhoud, Jan Meerhout is presented as a Dutch painter; one source also describes him as a draughtsman. His activ…
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Joachim Bandau Documented profileGermany
Joachim Bandau, a German painter and sculptor born in Cologne in 1936, develops a practice that combines sculpture and painting. After studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts…
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Johann Friedrich August Tischbein Documented profileGermany
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as “Leipziger-Tischbein”, was a German painter born in Maastricht in 1750 and died in Heidelberg in 1812. A member of the Tischbein dynasty,…
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Jean Delville Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter Jean Delville, born in Leuven in 1867 as Jean Libert, situated his practice within Symbolism while extending it through poetry, writing and art theory. He trained…
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Joshua Reynolds Documented profileCountry to be documented
British painter born in Plympton in 1723 and died in London in 1792, Joshua Reynolds is distinguished primarily as a portraitist. According to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, h…
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Jochen Seidel Documented profileGermany
The German painter Jochen Seidel, also known as Hans Joachim Seidel, lived from 1924 to 1971. Two works on paper, Come Back to Ireland Where the Green Is Like the Green in Your Paint…
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John Quincy Adams Documented profileAustria
Documented works by John Quincy Adams include, in particular, two pendant portraits of Mor and Gabriele Fekete-Schindler-Barney, executed in oil on canvas and each signed by the arti…
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Joseph Garibaldi Documented profileFrance
The French painter Joseph Garibaldi, born and deceased in Marseille, anchors a significant part of his work in the landscapes and ports of the Provençal coast. He paints regularly in…
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Jan Kubíček Documented profileCzechia
The Czech painter, sculptor and graphic artist Jan Kubíček (1927–2013) is associated with Constructivist and Concrete art. A documented example of his work is Progrese-Regrese (1974)…
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Johann Wilhelm Preyer Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Rheydt in 1803 and died in Düsseldorf in 1889, Johann Wilhelm Preyer is described as a painter devoted exclusively to still life. The biographical note describes a meticulous…
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Jan Miel Documented profileCountry to be documented
A Flemish painter active in the 17th century, Jan Miel is associated with the Bamboccianti group. Around 1636, he was in contact with Claude Lorrain; in 1640, he entered Andrea Sacch…
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Jacob Duck Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacob Duck, a Dutch painter said to have lived from 1600 to 1667, is presented as an Utrecht artist who specialised in interiors with soldiers. According to Léonard Pouy’s study, his…
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Jan Baptist Lambrechts Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Jan Baptist Lambrechts, born in Antwerp in 1680, is associated with genre painting, particularly tavern scenes and festive gatherings. His half-brother Jeroom hel…
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Justus Juncker Documented profileGermany
The German painter Justus Juncker, born in 1703 and died in 1767, is associated with a practice shaped by the study of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A sale notice presents Der…
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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer’s flower painting belongs both to still life and to the decorative arts: his compositions are also known through prints and tapestry cartoons. Fleurs, fruits e…
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Joaquim Bravo Documented profilePortugal
Portuguese painter Joaquim Bravo (1935–1990) was born in Évora and died in Lisbon. An untitled sheet from 1973, executed in oil on paper, is described as signed and dated in ink at t…
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Jean Puy Documented profileFrance
French painter born and deceased in Roanne, Jean Puy takes part in the emergence of Fauvism while developing a body of work that later moves away from the avant-garde and turns towar…
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Jean Marchand Documented profileFrance
Jean Hippolyte Marchand, also known as Jean Marchand and J. H. Marchand, trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Léon Bonnat’s studio from 1902 to 1906. He is also described as a pupi…
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Jan Frans van Bredael Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jan Frans van Bredael, also known as the Elder, was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1686 and died in 1750. The eldest son of the painter Alexander van Bredael and Cornelia Sporc…
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Johann Conrad Seekatz Documented profileGermany
Johann Conrad Seekatz was a history painter, genre painter and portraitist. Genre scenes came to occupy an increasingly prominent place in his work, alongside biblical and mythologic…
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Johannes Grützke Documented profileGermany
Johannes Grützke’s figurative painting borrows from cinema its low-angle and close-up framing, while his figures, often exaggerated with irony, play with the effects of representatio…
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Julius Paul Junghanns Documented profileGermany
Julius Paul Junghanns is represented by Bauer mit Pflug, an oil on canvas measuring 28.5 × 45 cm, signed lower left “Jul. P. Junghanns”. The published provenance of the work lists a…
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Josef Scharl Documented profileGermany · United States
German painter Josef Scharl was born in 1896 and died in 1954. A work entitled Still Life with Melon is described by Genève Enchères as a signed oil on canvas, measuring 32 × 40 cm.
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James Ensor Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter James Ensor, associated with the avant-garde of the early 20th century, made the mask a recurring motif, which appeared in his work in 1883 with Les Masques scand…
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Jacob El Hanani Documented profileIsrael
Jacob El Hanani’s drawings take shape through the accumulation of thousands of lines or tiny letters, according to a plan defined in advance. This plan may determine the number or le…
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Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis Documented profileLatvia
The Latvian painter Janis Ferdinands Tidemanis, born in Ventspils in 1897 and who died in Toronto in 1964, developed a body of work spanning a wide range of subjects, from portraits…
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Jo Niemeyer Documented profileGermany
Jo Niemeyer’s practice brings together geometric composition and the study of nature. A German artist born in 1946 in Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate, he explores space, time, distances an…
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Justus Sustermans Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Justus Sustermans (1597–1681), originally from Antwerp, spent much of his life in Florence, where he became official portraitist at the Medici court. According to…
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Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, born and deceased in Paris, situated her work within Neo-Impressionism. Flowers and gardens hold a prominent place in her painting. S…
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Julien Dupré Documented profileFrance
Julien Dupré paints rural life and fieldwork in a naturalistic manner, attentive to observation and light. He studies at the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the studios of Isidore P…
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Jean-Michel Folon Documented profileBelgium
From ink drawings to illustrated books, television title sequences and works in bronze, stained glass or ceramics, Jean-Michel Folon worked across a range of media. His career thus b…
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Jean Revol Documented profileFrance
Jean Revol, a French painter, printmaker, essayist and writer born in Lyon in 1929 and deceased in 2012, pursued artistic creation alongside reflection on art. He began drawing and p…
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Joan Hernández Pijuan Documented profileSpain
Spanish painter born and deceased in Barcelona, Joan Hernández Pijuan developed a body of work whose early stages are marked by expressionist painting with existential resonance, fol…
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Jurgen Klauke Documented profileGermany
German photographer Jürgen Klauke, born in Cochem in 1943, placed the body and sexual identity at the heart of his early work in the 1970s, using himself as a model. He studied at th…
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Joseph Vernet Documented profileCountry to be documented
Claude Joseph Vernet, known as Joseph Vernet (Avignon, 1714 – Paris, 1789), is distinguished by a practice of landscape and marine painting that took shape during his stay in Rome, w…
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Joseph Marioni Documented profileUnited States
Joseph Marioni (1943–2024), an American artist born in Ohio who died in New York, devoted his painting to colour as luminous presence and pictorial material. He studied at the Cincin…
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Jacques Villon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Jacques Villon is particularly associated with the Section d’or, whose public presentation he helped organise. His career thus links studio practice with dialogue…
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Jacques Deperthes Documented profileCountry to be documented
Jacques Deperthes, described as a Franco-Swiss painter, was born in 1936 in Suresnes, France, and lives in Geneva. His connection to Geneva is also reflected in his education: from 1…
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Joannis Avramidis Documented profileAustria · Greece
Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016), a Greek-Austrian artist, develops a sculptural practice that takes the forms of the human body as its starting point and simplifies them towards abstra…
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Jean-Yves Couliou Documented profileFrance
Jean-Yves Couliou, a French painter born in Landerneau in 1916 and deceased in Lorient in 1995, grew up near Pont-Aven, the region his parents came from. After secondary school, he t…
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José Vela Zanetti Documented profileSpain
José Vela Zanetti (1913–1999) is identified as a painter. “Casas”, a work in watercolour and ink, signed lower right, measures 59 × 37.5 cm; the lot was estimated at CHF 2,500 and so…
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John Seery Documented profileUnited States
John Seery is presented as an American artist born in 1941. A sale record documents Capital Yellow, a work signed and titled on the reverse. The provenance stated there is the Peter…
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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