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Jean Metzinger Documented profileFrance
Born in Nantes in 1883 and died in Paris in 1956, Jean Metzinger moved through several artistic movements before becoming one of the artists associated with Cubism. In 1900, he studi…
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Carl Moll Documented profileAustria
Carl Moll, also listed under the names Karl Moll and Carl Julius Rudolf Moll, was born in Vienna on 23 April 1861. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1897, he was one…
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Balthasar van den Bossche Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter Balthasar van den Bossche was born in 1681 and died in 1715. The attribution of Group of Musicians to van den Bossche was proposed by Professor Fred Meijer. The p…
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Bernard Frize Documented profileFrance
Bernard Frize lives in Paris and Berlin. A resident at the Villa Medici from 1984 to 1986, he exhibited in 2010 at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen as part of “And How and Where a…
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Wilhelm Morgner Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Morgner, associated with Expressionism, was born in Soest, Westphalia, on 27 January 1891 and died in combat at Langemark, West Flanders…
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Anselm Kiefer Documented profileAustria · Germany · France
Anselm Kiefer, a German painter born in Donaueschingen in 1945, has developed a practice spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film, the book, in situ works and architecture. Hi…
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Jack Vanarsky Documented profileArgentina · France
Jack Vanarsky develops a sculptural practice based on movement and the decomposition of forms: his kinetic sculptures, which he has been making since 1965, have been made from 1968 o…
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Theodore Appleby Documented profileUnited States
The work of Theodore Appleby is associated with American Abstract Expressionism while combining spontaneity with a concern for structure. In 1954, Paysage rose retains a schematic fi…
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Henri Lehmann Documented profileFrance
Henri Lehmann, a French painter of German origin, was born in Kiel in 1814 and died in Paris in 1882. He was first trained by his father, Leo Lehmann, a portraitist and miniaturist,…
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Hans Rilke Documented profileGermany
Hans Rilke, a painter, graphic artist and art educator from Rheydt, lived in Düsseldorf from 1910. His training included a seminar for the training of drawing teachers and a school o…
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Pompeo Massani Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Pompeo Massani, born in Florence in 1850 and deceased in 1920, is associated with works documented in sale records. “Three Generations”, dated circa 1880, is list…
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Henry Lerolle Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1848, Henry Lerolle made his debut at the Salon in 1868 with Chevreuils en forêt, one of his first works to be accepted. Initially known for his religious painting,…
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Jean Béraud Documented profileFrance
Jean Béraud paints Parisian life, particularly the activities of the affluent bourgeoisie: walks along the boulevards, performances, cafés and restaurants. His work also includes por…
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Paul Jouve Documented profileFrance
His work also includes organising exhibitions: in Athens, he organises the Exposition des Artistes d’Orient. Book illustration is another important aspect of his work. The works to w…
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Italo Mus Documented profileItaly
Italo Mus, also known as Joseph-Italo Mus, was born in Châtillon on 24 April 1892 and died in Saint-Vincent on 15 May 1967. His first artistic training took place in his father’s wor…
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Domenico Tintoretto Documented profileCountry to be documented
Domenico Tintoretto, also known by the names Domenico Robusti and Dominique Tintoret, was born in Venice in 1560 and died there on 17 May 1635. He grew up under the tutelage of his f…
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Renée Sintenis Documented profileGermany
Renée Sintenis’s subjects range from young people to animals and sport: her work includes horses, calves, goats and donkeys, as well as athletes whose characteristic poses she captur…
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Harmen Meurs Documented profileNetherlands
Titled “Sitzender Halbakt”, this oil on canvas measures 65.7 × 53.7 cm; it is signed and dated lower right. According to the catalogue, the model may be the Dutch artist Berthe Eders…
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François de Troy Documented profileFrance
François de Troy, a French painter from a family of artists from Languedoc, was born in Toulouse in 1645 and died in Paris in 1730. His father and grandfather also pursued profession…
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Joseph Petitot Documented profileFrance
Joseph Petitot (1771–1844) is associated, in an auction notice, with a pair of portraits of Monsieur and Madame Roget, described as attributed to the artist. Described as executed in…
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Jan Cossiers Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter and draughtsman Jan Cossiers (1600–1671), active in the seventeenth century, pursued a career connected with Antwerp, where his practice encompassed religious and…
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Werner Schramm Documented profileGermany
The German painter Werner Schramm, born in Duisburg in 1898 and died in Düsseldorf in 1970, was mobilised as a medical orderly during the final months of the First World War. From 19…
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Louis Welden Hawkins Documented profileFrance
Born in Esslingen in 1849, Louis Welden Hawkins was a British painter who became a naturalised French citizen in 1895. According to the sources, his female figures are distinguished…
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Robert Marc Documented profileFrance
Born in Auxerre in 1943, Robert Marc developed a painting practice that combines classical painting technique with abstract forms, a combination noted in the biography published by I…
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Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Documented profileUnited States
Painter and printmaker Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025) developed a practice that expanded to include collage, drawing and mixed media. A member of the Confederated Salish and Ko…
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Lucas Franchoys the Younger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Flemish painter and printmaker Lucas Franchoys the Younger, also known as Lucas Franchoys II, was born and died in Mechelen, in 1616 and 1681. The son of the painter Lucas Franch…
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Thomas Somerscales Documented profileCountry to be documented
The British painter Thomas Somerscales (1842–1927) lived and worked in Chile. In 1869, an illness related to malaria forced him to disembark at Valparaíso, where he settled. He exhib…
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Bernard Boutet de Monvel Documented profileFrance
The son of the painter and illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, he studied painting with Luc-Olivier Merson from 1897, then sculpture with Jean Dampt. Initiated in 1898 by Lou…
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Jean-Jacques Morvan Documented profileFrance
French painter Jean-Jacques Morvan, born in Paris in 1928 and deceased in 2005, also works as an actor, journalist, critic and singer-songwriter. After entering the École nationale s…
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Marinus van Reymerswaele Documented profileCountry to be documented
The interior scenes associated with Marinus van Reymerswale show customs officers, tax collectors and money changers: figures connected with the activities of money and administratio…
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Agostino Ferrari Documented profileItaly
Agostino Ferrari is an Italian painter born in 1938. A work attributed to him, Segno scrittura (1985), is a painting in acrylic and sand on canvas, measuring 80 × 60 cm. The lot desc…
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Olivier Sery Documented profileFrance
Olivier Séry, a French painter, was born in Le Havre in 1906 and died in 2000. His biography associates him with subjects of wind and rain. It links this reputation to La Bourrasque,…
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Ernst Dargen Documented profileGermany
The German painter Ernst Dargen was born in Hamburg in 1866 and died in Munich in 1929. A watercolour on paper entitled “Venedig”, dated 1896, is listed under his name by Schuler Auk…
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Samuel Bough Documented profileCountry to be documented
Samuel Bough, also known as Sam Bough, was a British artist born in Carlisle in 1822 and died in 1878. Self-taught, he first worked as a scene painter at the Theatre Royal in Manches…
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Brice Marden Documented profileUnited States
American painter and printmaker Brice Marden developed a body of work spanning painting and printmaking, from monochrome paintings to the integration of the line. Born in Bronxville…
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Josef Mikl Documented profileAustria
Josef Mikl (Vienna, 1929–2008), an Austrian artist, belongs to the post-war generation that helped move Austrian painting away from representation and develop an abstract visual lang…
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Charles Walch Documented profileFrance
The French painter, printmaker and sculptor Charles Walch was born in Thann on 4 August 1896 and died in Paris on 12 December 1948. After training in Mulhouse, he worked as a pattern…
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Rudolf von Voigtländer Documented profileGermany
Rudolf von Voigtländer is documented as a painter of landscapes, interiors and nudes: these genres define the main fields of his practice, without requiring it to be reduced to a sin…
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Christian Silvain Documented profileBelgium
Born in 1950 in Eupen, Belgium, Christian Silvain is described as self-taught. His early career combines work on stage scenery with painting: from 1967, he restores backdrops at an o…
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Raphael Delorme Documented profileFrance
Associated with the Bordeaux School, Raphaël Delorme is placed among the artists of this milieu, alongside Jean Dupas, René Buthaud and Robert Poughéon. He studies at the École des B…
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Rembrandt Bugatti Documented profileCountry to be documented
The son of decorator and architect Carlo Bugatti and younger brother of Ettore, Rembrandt Bugatti began sculpting in childhood, encouraged by Giovanni Segantini and Paul Troubetzkoy.…
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Giovanni Fattori Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter and printmaker Giovanni Fattori, born in Livorno and deceased in Florence, is one of the representatives of the Macchiaioli movement. In Florence, he frequents th…
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Joseph Anton Roth Documented profileGermany
Joseph Anton Roth (1807–1868), a German painter, is known here through the biographical and work-related details recorded in the available sources. A catalogue describes an oil paint…
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Joseph Soumy Documented profileFrance
A painter and printmaker known as Joseph Soumy, or Joseph-Paul-Marius Soumy, he trained successively in Lyon and Paris, with printmaking occupying a central place in his career. Born…
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David Nash Documented profileUnited Kingdom
David Nash is a British artist born in 1945 in Esher, England, whose work focuses mainly on wood, trees and the natural environment. After studying in Kingston, he joined the Chelsea…
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Georges Hugnet Documented profileFrance
Under the title Personnage méduse, a watercolour measuring 188 × 150 mm is presented under the name of Georges Hugnet. Its provenance mentions the collection of Myrtille and Georges…
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Carlos Scliar Documented profileBrazil
Carlos Scliar (1920–2001) is listed as a Brazilian painter. On the back of Alamandas, a sales sheet notes the inscription “Galleria de arte Ipanema Rio de Janeiro, Brasil”, which ind…
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Bernardo Amiconi Documented profileCountry to be documented
Painter Bernardo Amiconi is listed as having been born in 1825 and having died around 1880. A sale listing offers, under his name and with an attribution, the “Virgin with Blue Veil”…
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Abraham Blommaert Documented profileCountry to be documented
A river landscape with sailing ships and figures, listed under the name of Blommaert in the Schuler Auktionen catalogue, documents the artist’s painting here: this oil on canvas is s…
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Jan Schoonhoven Documented profileNetherlands
Jan Schoonhoven (1914–1994), a Dutch artist born and died in Delft, moved from early abstract explorations to a body of work in which relief and repetition occupy a central place. In…
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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