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N° 1 Yannis Kounellis Documented profile
Born in Piraeus in 1936 and died in Rome in 2017, Jannis Kounellis left Greece in 1956 to study art in Rome. He held his first solo exhibition there in 1960, at the La Tartaruga gall…
CHF 150’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Greece · Italy Reference profile ↗Additional references (5)
www.universalis.fr ↗www.galerie-lelong.com ↗smak.be ↗fr.wikipedia.org ↗www.kornfeld.ch ↗ -
N° 2 Yun Hyong-keun Documented profile
Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007) was a Korean painter associated with Dansaekhwa. His life was marked by war and repeated political imprisonment. From the 1970s, he developed paintings bas…
CHF 60’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗South Korea Reference profile ↗ -
N° 3 Yue Minjun Documented profile
Yue Minjun, born in Daqing, China, in 1962, began studying oil painting at Hebei Normal University in 1985. Based in Beijing, he developed a recurring self-image in the early 1990s:…
CHF 35’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗China Reference profile ↗ -
N° 4 Yi Eungro Documented profile
Lee Ungno’s practice develops at the intersection of ink painting and calligraphy, which informs his creative process through both signs and formal elements. In 1920, he learns the f…
CHF 12’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France · South Korea Reference profile ↗ -
N° 5 Yves Brayer Documented profile
The French painter Yves Brayer’s practice brings painting together with copper engraving and lithography, as well as illustration and the decorative arts. He produces prints and illu…
CHF 9’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗ -
N° 6 Yohanan Simon Documented profile
Yohanan Simon, born in Berlin in 1905, trained in Germany and Paris before joining Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in 1936. He became an important figure in its artistic life, organising meetings…
CHF 8’541Highest documented result in CHF · frais inclusReference profile ↗Israel Reference profile ↗ -
N° 7 Yves Laloy Documented profile
At the end of the 1950s, André Breton helped bring public attention to his work. His painting brings together two modes: geometric compositions and figurative paintings that draw on…
CHF 7’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗ -
N° 8 Yang Jiechang Documented profile
Yang Jiechang trained in Foshan and then at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1982 and teaching there until 1988. His work appeared in Magiciens de la Terre in Paris…
CHF 6’500Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗China Reference profile ↗ -
N° 9 Yosl Bergner Documented profile
Born in Vienna and raised in Warsaw, Yosl Bergner moved to Australia in 1937 and studied in Melbourne. His urban scenes combine European memories with observation of the Australian c…
CHF 6’500Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Israel Reference profile ↗ -
N° 10 Yuri Kuper Documented profile
Born in Moscow in 1940, Yuri Kuper develops a body of work in which time and the traces it leaves on things occupy a central place. He studies at the Moscow Academy of Art from 1957…
CHF 6’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗United Kingdom · Russia Reference profile ↗ -
N° 11 Yvonne Canu Documented profile
The French painter Yvonne Canu (1921–2008), born in Meknès, Morocco, developed a Neo-Impressionist practice characterised by a divided brushstroke and the arrangement of juxtaposed c…
CHF 5’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗ -
N° 12 Yannis Spyropoulos Documented profile
The Greek painter Yánnis Spyrópoulos, born in 1912 and deceased in 1990, developed his painting from naturalism towards abstraction, before shifting his interest to the image itself…
CHF 3’000Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Greece Reference profile ↗ -
N° 13 Yaacov Agam Documented profile
In Yaacov Agam’s work, the work of art is not presented as a still image: it introduces time into form and changes with the viewer’s movement or intervention. Fragmented, abstract an…
CHF 2’600Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France · Israel Reference profile ↗ -
N° 14 Yves Corbassière Documented profile
Born in Paris in 1925, Yves Corbassière worked across painting, engraving, lithography, poster design, decoration and sculpture. He came from an industrial family based in Montmartre…
CHF 1’100Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗ -
N° 15 Yakov Feldman Documented profile
Yakov Feldman was born in Vitebsk in 1969 and trained in that Belarusian city. He completed art school in 1987, then studied textile design between 1988 and 1990. He subsequently mov…
CHF 850Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗Country to be documented Reference profile ↗ -
N° 16 Yves Ganne Documented profile
Born in Angers in 1931, Yves Ganne entered the École des beaux-arts in Nantes in 1946. His path continued in Paris, where he settled in 1950 and joined Fernand Léger’s studio. He sub…
CHF 700Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France Reference profile ↗Additional references (6)
galerie125.fr ↗www.1stdibs.com ↗lecoqart.fr ↗www.facebook.com ↗lecoqart.fr ↗www.instagram.com ↗ -
N° 17 Yan Nascimbene Documented profile
Yan Nascimbene (1949–2013), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, spent his childhood between France and Italy. After working as a photographer’s assistant, he studied photography, drawing and…
CHF 150Highest documented result in CHFReference profile ↗France 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
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