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M. F. Husain Documented profileIndia · Qatar
In 1935, Maqbool Fida Husain went to Bombay and enrolled at the Sir J. J. School of Art; he began by painting film sets. In 1971, he was invited as a special guest to the São Paulo B…
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Madge Gill Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Madge Gill (1882–1961), a British artist born Maude Ethel Eades, spent most of her life in London’s East End. Placed at the Dr Barnardo’s orphanage in Barkingside at the age of nine,…
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Magdalena Rădulescu Documented profileRomania
Trained between Munich and Paris, Magdalena Rădulescu studied at the Grande-Chaumière with Prinet and Angerer, according to the available biographical note. At the age of twenty-four…
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Mamdouh Kashlan Documented profileSyria
The Syrian painter Mamdouh Kashlan, born in Damascus in 1929, trained in Rome at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied from 1952 to 1957 and obtained a diploma specialising in o…
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Man Ray Documented profileFrance · United States
Known as Man Ray, Emmanuel Radnitzky—also referred to as Emmanuel Radensky—is identified by the Art Institute of Chicago as an artist born in 1890 and who died in 1976. The documente…
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Manfred Mohr Documented profileGermany
Born in 1938 in Pforzheim, Germany, Manfred Mohr is an artist whose career is closely connected to computer art. His first solo exhibition takes place in 1968 at Galerie Daniel Templ…
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Manoucher Yektai Documented profileIran · United States
The Iranian painter Manoucher Yektai (1922–2019) is represented here by a still life dated 1973. Still Life with Cyclamens, signed and dated oil on canvas, measures 40.5 × 51 cm. The…
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Manuel Mendive Documented profileCuba
Manuel Mendive’s work draws on Santería, a tradition present in his family, and on a recurring attentiveness to the natural world; it takes shape on a range of supports, including th…
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Marc Chagall Documented profileFrance
In Marc Chagall’s work, decorative lyricism is associated with subjects shaped by Russian folk art and his roots in Hasidic Judaism. This approach accompanies a career spanning more…
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Marc Eemans Documented profileBelgium
During this period, he exhibits alongside René Magritte and Salvador Dalí. The biographical entry consulted characterizes his later orientation as marked by a “certain symbolic mysti…
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Marc Sterling Documented profileFrance
Born in Minsk under the name Mordkha Sterling, Marc Sterling (1895–1976) was a French painter and draughtsman of Russian origin whose practice encompassed oil painting, gouache, draw…
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Marcel Burtin Documented profileFrance
Marcel Burtin is identified as a French painter (1902–1979). The provenance given for « Les deux amies » mentions Les Deux Rives, in Cannes, under number 15, followed by a private co…
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Marcel Depré Documented profileFrance
Marcel Depré’s career links graphic design training, book illustration and marine painting. He studied at the École Estienne in Paris from 1933 to 1937, then produced the illustratio…
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Marcel Dyf Documented profileFrance
Marcel Dyf, a pseudonym for Marcel Dreyfus, developed a career as a painter shaped by stays in distinct places, from the Midi to the Paris region. Born in Paris on 7 October 1899, he…
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Marcel Gromaire Documented profileFrance
The French painter and decorator Marcel Gromaire (1892–1971) developed a practice spanning painting, decoration, tapestry and printmaking. After studying law, he abandoned the legal…
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Marcel Leprin Documented profileFrance
From 1926, his travels through the French countryside gave rise to a body of landscapes and urban views. Meaux and Avallon are among the places mentioned, followed in 1927 by Poitier…
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Marcel-Louis Baugniet Documented profileBelgium
A painter, decorator, furniture designer and art theorist, Marcel-Louis Baugniet developed a practice spanning the visual and applied arts. Born in Liège in 1896 and deceased in Brus…
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Marcel Masson Documented profileCountry to be documented
Associated with the pseudonym Antoine Blanchard, Marcel Masson is presented through scenes of Paris during the Belle Époque. The walls of Montmartre and the suburbs are among his pre…
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Marcel Mouly Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1918 and died in Clamart in 2008, Marcel Mouly found the subject for his first drawings early on, in 1931, in the port of Le Havre. That same year, he left school an…
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Marcel Wibault Documented profileFrance
Marcel Wibault’s painting spans several fields: alpine landscapes, the work on the Mont Blanc Tunnel, rocks and, later, portraits of children and scenes of everyday life. Born in Bes…
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Marcelle Cahn Documented profileFrance
The French painter Marcelle Cahn, born in 1895 and died in 1981, combines a life spent across several European cities with an intellectual education in literature and philosophy, and…
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Marcelle Noyon Documented profileFrance
The French painter Marcelle Noyon, born in Paris in 1886 and died in Meaux in 1980, trained with Fernand Cormon, Eugène Thirion, Humbert and Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin. She exhibite…
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Marcia Hafif Documented profileUnited States
Two reference points shed light on Marcia Hafif’s approach: in retrospect, she identifies certain works as belonging to «minimal pop», while her painting becomes monochrome at anothe…
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Marco Gastini Documented profileItaly
For Marco Gastini, painting is not limited to the surface: its relationship to space, both mental and physical, runs through his artistic language, while the works extend beyond canv…
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Maria Caspar-Filser Documented profileGermany
Born in Riedlingen in 1878, Maria Caspar-Filser is presented in sales notices through her ties to art groups and a notable appointment as a professor. One notice describes her as a m…
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Maria Lassnig Documented profileAustria
The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig makes the body and its inner sensations a central subject of her painting; much of her work takes the form of self-portraits. After studying at the…
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Maria Marc Documented profileGermany
Maria Marc, née Bertha Pauline Marie Franck, was a German painter whose artistic training took her to Berlin, Munich and the artists’ colony of Worpswede. Born in Berlin on 12 June 1…
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Maria Palatini Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1952, Maria Palatini grew up in St. Gallen, the city where she also established her artistic practice. According to a biography published by Kunstkaufen.ch, in 1977 she chose…
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Marie Joseph Orgiazzi Documented profileFrance
In an auction catalogue, Marie Joseph Orgiazzi is identified as having lived from 1945 to 1998 and is represented by a work entitled « A Federico Lorca ou le sang du poète ». Describ…
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Marie Laurencin Documented profileFrance
Marie Laurencin, also named Marie-Mélanie Laurencin, is described as a French painter, poet and printmaker. Works listed by the Art Institute of Chicago include Head of a Young Woman…
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Marie Vassilieff Documented profileFrance
The painter and theatre designer Marie Vassilieff—also known as Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva—was born in Smolensk in 1884 and died in 1957. Her career brings together painting, decorati…
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Marinus Gidding Documented profileCountry to be documented
In Marinus Gidding’s Flusslandschaft, two rowing boats rest on the water, beside willows and a house on the left bank. This watercolour, signed at lower right, measures 53 × 38 cm.
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Mario Cavaglieri Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Cavaglieri (1887–1969), born in Rovigo, Veneto, developed a body of work spanning two distinct periods: the depiction of high society before the war, follow…
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Mario Nigro Documented profileItaly
Italian painter Mario Nigro, born in Pistoia in 1917 and deceased in Livorno in 1992, brought together scientific studies, music and painting in his career. After his family moved to…
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Mario Reviglione Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and printmaker Mario Reviglione, born in 1883 and died in 1965, studied with Giacomo Grosso and Paolo Gaidano at the Accademia Albertina in Turin from 1900 to 190…
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Mario Schifano Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter and collagist Mario Schifano (1934–1998), born in Khoms, Libya, and who died in Rome, developed a practice that extends beyond painting: his work also encompassed…
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Mario Sironi Documented profileItaly
Mario Sironi’s career combines an evolving approach to painting with a wide-ranging practice, from graphic design and stage design to architecture and mural painting, culminating in…
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Mario Tozzi Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Mario Tozzi was born in Fossombrone in 1895. He trained in Bologna before continuing his career in Paris. After abandoning his studies in chemistry, he enrolled a…
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Marion Broom Documented profileCountry to be documented
A listing identifies Marion Broom under the designation “RWS” and gives the dates 1878–1962. Two documented works are still-life watercolours: Blumenstillleben, signed lower right, m…
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Markus Draper Documented profileGermany
Born in 1969, Markus Draper is identified as a German artist. A work entry documents several presentations between 2006 and 2007: “Die innere Sicherheit” at Sandroni. Rey Gallery in…
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Markus Lüpertz Documented profileGermany
Markus Lüpertz’s practice spans painting and sculpture, while his activities also include university teaching and, since the 1980s, stage design. He studied at the school of fine art…
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Markus Prachensky Documented profileAustria
Markus Prachensky (1932–2011) is an Austrian painter. Among the documented works is *Luxor Swing*, dated 1997: executed in ink on cardboard, it measures 77 × 56.5 cm and bears the si…
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Marlene Dumas Documented profileNetherlands · South Africa
Marlene Dumas’s formative works combine hybrid investigations, at times abstract and at times post-conceptual, with collage and writing. Painting, less present during this period, wo…
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Martha Grunenwaldt Documented profileBelgium
Martha Grünenwaldt (1910–2008), a Belgian artist, began drawing when she was over seventy: this late entry into artistic practice is a distinctive landmark in her career. The daughte…
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Martin Drolling Documented profileFrance
The French painter of portraits and genre scenes Martin Drölling — also spelled Drolling — is associated with interior scenes, copies and portraits. These genres offer concrete point…
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Martin Kippenberger Documented profileGermany
The Art Institute of Chicago’s catalogue lists, among others, Untitled (Self-Portrait) (1988), Untitled (Michael Jackson) (1989) and Untitled (Emaciation of the Mastubator) (1990), f…
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Marwan Kassab-Bachi Documented profileGermany · Syria
Born in Damascus in 1934 and deceased in Berlin in 2016, Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, developed a career closely tied to the German capital, where he arrived in 1957 and sub…
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Mary Heilmann Documented profileUnited States
United States artist Mary Heilmann, born in 1940 and died in 2026, has developed a practice in which painting is conceived both as a language to be questioned and as a pictorial expe…
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Massimo Campigli Documented profileItaly
Among them is Ritratto del pittore Achille Funi, attributed to Campigli in the CulturaItalia catalogue and dated 1931. The entry gives the dimensions as 120 × 100 cm. The work is ass…
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Master IW Documented profileCountry to be documented
Known as Master IW or the Monogrammist I.W., this artist is presented as a Czech or Saxon Renaissance painter, active between 1520 and 1550, mainly in north-western Bohemia; the mono…
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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