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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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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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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