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Luigi Surdi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Italian painter Luigi Surdi, born in 1897 and deceased in 1959, is represented by several works catalogued under Roman and Venetian subjects. These include “Monte Savello, Rome” (55…
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Luigi Veronesi Documented profileItaly
Luigi Veronesi (1908–1998) developed a practice connecting painting, photography, film and graphic art. His encounters with the European avant-garde, particularly Fernand Léger, acco…
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Luis Argudín Documented profileMexico
Born in Mexico City in 1955, Luis Argudín is described as a Mexican painter and teacher. The published provenance for a work states that the father of its current owner acquired it d…
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Luis Feito Documented profileSpain
Born in Madrid in 1929, Luis Feito López, known as Luis Feito, developed his painting from early figurative elements through a Cubist period and then towards abstraction, particularl…
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Luis Ricardo Falero Documented profileSpain
Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896) was a Spanish painter born in Granada who died in London. His career developed between France and England. After serving in the Spanish navy, he chose…
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Luis Tomasello Documented profileArgentina
Luis Tomasello’s research focuses on the effects of reflected light: in his Atmosphères chromoplastiques, white cubes arranged on a white ground set the colours of shadow and light i…
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Luise Deichler Documented profileGermany · United States
Luise Deicher (1891–1973), catalogued here as Luise Deichler, was a German painter and draughtswoman born in Waiblingen. She began studying art in Stuttgart in 1908 with Gustav Igler…
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Lynn Chadwick Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Lynn Chadwick developed a sculptural practice in which construction and assembly played a central role. Settling in Gloucestershire as a freelance designer in 1947, he initially made…
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Lyonel Feininger Documented profileUnited States
The German-American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) also worked as a caricaturist, with drawings published in several periodicals, including the Chicago Sunday Tribune. In 1913,…
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Lyonel Laurenceau Documented profileHaiti
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1942, Lyonel Laurenceau studied in Haiti, the United States and France before settling in Montreal. Human character inspires painting in which portraiture,…
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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 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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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 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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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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Manuel Torres Martínez Documented profileSpain
Manuel Torres (1938–2018) left Spain in 1960 after studying at the vocational school in Málaga. A metalworker building prototypes at the Ateliers des Charmilles in Geneva, he taught…
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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 Desgrandchamps Documented profileFrance
Marc Desgrandchamps, born in Sallanches in 1960, works as a painter and printmaker. After studying in Aix-en-Provence and at the fine arts school in Paris, he settled in Lyon in 1984…
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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 Broodthaers Documented profileBelgium
Belgian visual artist Marcel Broodthaers, born in 1924 and died in 1976, initially devoted a significant part of his life to poetry: he worked mainly as a poet until 1963, before tur…
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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 Cramoysan Documented profileFrance
Born in Étretat and active in Rouen, Marcel Cramoysan trained with Robert Antoine Pinchon. His figurative painting belongs to the artistic environment of the Rouen School and gives l…
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Marcel Delmotte Documented profileBelgium
Visionary landscapes and large symbolic compositions occupy a central place in the work of Marcel Delmotte (1901–1984). Born in Charleroi, the Belgian painter trained at the Universi…
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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 Odenbach Documented profileGermany
Born in Cologne in 1953, Marcel Odenbach studied architecture, art history and semiotics in Aachen from 1974 to 1979. His work combines drawing, collage, video and installation. Betw…
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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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Marcelle Rivier Documented profileFrance
Marcelle Rivier (1906–1986) spent her childhood in Argentina and worked in a Buenos Aires gallery before moving to Paris in 1928. She studied with André Lhote and attended the Julian…
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Marcello Lo Giudice Documented profileItaly
Marcello Lo Giudice, born in Taormina in 1957, is an Italian painter exploring relationships between colour, matter and natural phenomena. A geology graduate from Bologna, he also at…
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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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Marcin Maciejowski Documented profilePoland
The Polish painter Marcin Maciejowski, born in 1974, first gained international recognition as part of Grupa Ładnie (Pretty Group), alongside students from the Krakow University of T…
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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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Marco Tirelli Documented profileItaly
Marco Tirelli, born in Rome in 1956, studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts with Toti Scialoja. In the late 1970s he established his studio in the former Pastificio Cerere…
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Marcos Castillo Documented profileVenezuela
Marcos Castillo (1897–1966) was a Venezuelan painter born in Caracas, where he also died. He entered the city's Academy of Fine Arts in 1917 and taught painting and composition there…
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Marcus Larson Documented profileSweden
Marcus Larson, born in Sweden in 1825, built his career through Nordic training and European travel. He studied in Stockholm and Copenhagen, visited Norway and spent time in Düsseldo…
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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 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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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