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Arpita Singh Documented profileIndia
Born in 1937, Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. The Golden Deer (2004) is an example of work in watercolour and gouache on paper; the work is signed and dated lower right and measure…
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Otto Strützel Documented profileGermany
The German landscape and animal painter Otto Strützel makes people and farm animals recurring elements in his landscapes: oxen, horses, ploughmen, shepherds and herds appear in parti…
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Gianfranco Baruchello Documented profileItaly
In 1963, he meets Marcel Duchamp. The following year, for an exhibition in New York, he presents drawings of imaginary machines on superimposed Plexiglas sheets, thus combining drawi…
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George Pusenkoff Documented profileGermany
George Pusenkoff, a German-Belarusian painter, installation artist and photographer born in 1953, develops a practice spanning several media. Breakfast on the Grass Nr. 11 (Head Gree…
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Geer van Velde Documented profileNetherlands
In Geer van Velde’s work, colour and the construction of space remain bound to a meditation on light: according to the gallery, his paintings never become abstract in the strict sens…
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Sergey Vinogradov Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Russian painter Sergei Arsenyevich Vinogradov (1869–1938) trained in Moscow, where he studied from 1880 to 1889 at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, notably und…
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Alexius Geyer Documented profileGermany
The German painter of landscapes and Oriental subjects Fedor Alexius Geyer, known as Alexius Geyer, was born in Berlin on 25 May 1816. Trained at the academies of Berlin, Munich and…
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Olympe Arson Documented profileFrance
Known as Marie Alexandrine Olympe Arson, the artist is said to have been born in 1814 and to have still been alive after 1870. One source describes her as a French flower painter. A…
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Magdalena Abakanowicz Documented profilePoland
The Polish textile artist and sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz extended weaving beyond the surface: her natural fibres and varied materials gave rise to reliefs and then to sculptural,…
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Gerard de Lairesse Documented profileCountry to be documented
Gérard de Lairesse (1641–1711), painter and printmaker, first received artistic training from his father, then continued his studies with Bertholet Flémal from 1655. In 1660, he rece…
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Rudolf Jahns Documented profileGermany
German painter Rudolf Jahns, born in 1896 and died in 1983, was among the members of the Abstracts of Hanover, a group founded in 1927. A work titled Abstrakter Akt, dated 1955, is a…
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Michael Mayr Documented profileCountry to be documented
Michael Mayr (1796–1870), an Austrian painter and theatre decorator, is documented here by a landscape study attributed to him. Described as a landscape «towards Eisenstadt», the wor…
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Pieter Casteels III Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter and printmaker Pieter Casteels III was born in Antwerp in 1684 and died in Richmond in 1749. He studied painting with his father, the landscape painter Pieter Cas…
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Cornelis de Heem Documented profileCountry to be documented
As a still-life painter, Cornelis de Heem developed his work in the wake of his father, Jan Davidszoon de Heem, whose son he was and who greatly inspired him. The closeness between t…
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Marie Raymond Documented profileFrance
Known by the names Marie Klein and Marie Raymond Klein, Marie Raymond is a French painter who also worked as an art critic. In Paris, she studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumiè…
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Robert Weir Allan Documented profileUnited Kingdom
A painter of landscapes and maritime subjects, Robert Weir Allan works in both oil and watercolour and also practises printmaking. His travels take him to India from 1891 to 1892, th…
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Barthel Gilles Documented profileGermany
The German painter Barthel Gilles, born in 1891 and died in 1977, is represented here by a work from 1953, Mädchenakt mit Blume. Executed in egg tempera on wood, the painting measure…
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Jacques Voyet Documented profileFrance
Born in Loudun in 1926 and died in Tours in 2010, Jacques Voyet pursued a multifaceted career as a painter, sculptor, set designer and stage director. His documented career includes,…
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Gastone Novelli Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Gastone Novelli, born in Vienna in 1925 and deceased in 1968, developed his work from expressionist painting towards an exploration in which signs, writing and im…
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Thomas Zipp Documented profileGermany
A painter at the heart of a practice that extends to sculpture, installation and musical performance, Thomas Zipp composes scenographic environments in which these media meet. His wo…
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John Altoon Documented profileUnited States
American painter and lithographer John Altoon (1925–1969) undertook training associated with Otis College of Art and Design, Chouinard Art Institute and Art Center College of Design.…
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Albert Birkle Documented profileAustria · Germany
The entry records the work in the spring exhibition of the Preußische Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1925, under the title Wahnsinn. It also mentions an Albert Birkle exhibition he…
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Jan Claudius de Cock Documented profileCountry to be documented
A signed drawing entitled *Chantier à l’Antique*, in ink and wash on paper, measures 32.5 × 23 cm. Its provenance mentions Galerie Perrin in Paris in 1990, followed by a couple of ar…
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Auguste Mambour Documented profileBelgium
The Belgian painter and poster artist Auguste Mambour, born and deceased in Liège, combined painting, poster design and teaching throughout his career. Trained at the Académie des be…
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Michele Garinei Documented profileItaly
The Italian painter Michele Garinei (1871–1960) is notably associated with a copy after a self-portrait by Mme Vigée-Lebrun. An inscription recorded on the reverse of a lot attribute…
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Manuel Espinosa Documented profileArgentina
Argentine artist Manuel Espinosa (1912–2006) is the creator of a work whose provenance is documented. For *Ubddut*, it records an acquisition directly from the artist, followed by a…
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Bridget Riley Documented profileUnited Kingdom
British painter Bridget Riley, born in 1931, has been developing geometric compositions since 1961, whose ordered arrangements can cause viewers to experience sensations of vibration…
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Francesco Zanin Documented profileCountry to be documented
Titled Der erste Luftballon über Venedig, this oil on relined canvas measures 134 × 75.5 cm at the top and 55 cm at the bottom; it is signed and bears, on a cartouche, an inscription…
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Jules Ruinart de Brimont Documented profileFrance
The Marina Grande in Napoli is a signed and dated oil on panel, measuring 24.5 × 34.5 cm. The work is associated with a Christie’s sale in London on 16 June 2004, lot 40; its provena…
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Jean-Pierre Moynet Documented profileFrance
The French painter, decorator and lithographer Jean-Pierre Moynet was born in Paris in 1819 and died there in 1876. He was a pupil of Léon Cogniet. In 1858, he accompanied Alexandre…
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Pietro Testa Documented profileCountry to be documented
Settled in Rome early on, Pietro Testa developed a body of work in which printmaking occupies an important place: between 1638 and 1644, he produced a series of engravings devoted to…
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Eugène Carrière Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and teacher Eugène Anatole Carrière (1849–1906) developed, from the 1880s onwards, a distinctive style characterised by a brownish tonal range and an…
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Costas Tsoclis Documented profileGreece
Greek painter Costas Tsoclis, also transcribed as Cóstas Tsóclis, was born in Athens in 1930 and developed a practice spanning painting, installation and video. These different modes…
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Otto Gustaf Carlsund Documented profileSweden
His painting initially shows similarities to Léger’s, before quickly being influenced by Ozenfant’s Purism. He exhibits at the Salon des Indépendants from 1927 to 1929. Carlsund is a…
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Matthew Smith Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith, a British painter born in Halifax in 1879 and who died in 1959, developed a career that took him from the British art scene to repeated stays in France. A…
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Fleury Joseph Crépin Documented profileFrance
Music also plays a part in his life, and he composes pieces for the municipal brass band. From 1930, presenting himself as a healer, he draws closer to the spiritist movement and mee…
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Roland Caillaux Documented profileFrance
A film and theatre actor as well as a draughtsman, Roland Caillaux pursued two distinct practices. He lived from 1905 to 1977. His civil name was Roland Caillaud, with a “d”, but he…
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Jacques Lipchitz Documented profileFrance · Lithuania · United States
Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in 1891 in Druskininkai, Lithuania, and dying in Capri in 1973, the sculptor known as Jacques Lipchitz developed a body of work whose early years were roote…
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Maria Kloss Documented profileGermany
Born in Ronsperg, Czechoslovakia, on 30 January 1940, Maria Kloss is listed as a German painter and sculptor and is included among artists associated with Germany in a list devoted t…
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Jesús Rafael Soto Documented profileFrance · Venezuela
In the work of Jesús-Rafael Soto, movement takes shape through the viewer’s own experience: his works engage the gaze and, at times, prompt the viewer to move. In 1953, he explores t…
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Li Tianbing Documented profileChina
Born in Guilin in 1974, Li Tianbing, also known as Tianbing Li, develops a form of painting in which images from his childhood become material for storytelling. He settled in Paris a…
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Jean Raoux Documented profileCountry to be documented
Portraits of the aristocracy and the world of entertainment, historical and religious subjects, genre scenes in the Dutch manner: Jean Raoux’s work spans a range of fields. Trained i…
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Carlos Cruz-Diez Documented profileFrance · Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez makes colour an autonomous and evolving reality: his work explores chromatic phenomena and how they are perceived. This research takes shape in particular in the Phy…
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Julian Stanczak Documented profilePoland · United States
The American painter and printmaker of Polish origin Julian Stanczak (1928–2017) explored the relationships between colour, light and perception in his work. Born in Poland, he reach…
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Blanche Hoschedé Monet Documented profileFrance
Blanche Hoschedé learns to paint from Claude Monet, and becomes his assistant. She generally works outdoors, choosing natural landscapes, meadows by the water, trees, flowers and sti…
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Documented profileAustralia
The Australian Aboriginal painter Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932–2002) became one of the leading figures of the Western Desert art movement. In 1990, his first international exhi…
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Fermín Aguayo Documented profileSpain · France
Spanish painter Fermín Aguayo was born in 1926 in Sotillo de la Ribera, in the province of Burgos, and died in 1977. He approached painting as a self-taught artist before beginning h…
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Jean-Baptiste Olive Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Olive’s painting consistently returns to Marseille and its surroundings: the Old Port, the islands and the southern coastline are important subjects in his work. Accord…
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Achille Perilli Documented profileItaly
Achille Perilli, an Italian abstract painter born in Rome in 1927 and deceased in Orvieto in 2021, situates his artistic research within the debates of the post-war period. After att…
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Ferdinand Kriwet Documented profileGermany
The German artist Ferdinand Kriwet (1942–2018) is represented here by *Poem Painting No 1*, a work from 1964 executed in acrylic on canvas, measuring 100 × 200 cm. On the reverse, th…
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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