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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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Nicholas Matthews Condy Documented profileCountry to be documented
The British painter Nicholas Matthews Condy, born in Plymouth in 1816, died in that city on 20 May 1851. He is associated with marine painting and numerous views of the Thames. His f…
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Philip Taaffe Documented profileUnited States
Born in New Jersey in 1955, the American artist Philip Taaffe studied at Cooper Union in New York, where he received a BFA in 1977. His first solo exhibition was held in New York in…
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Ellsworth Kelly Documented profileUnited States
As an American abstract painter and sculptor, Ellsworth Kelly takes forms encountered in everyday life and nature as the starting point for a body of work that recreates them rather…
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Godfrey Kneller Documented profileGermany
Born in Lübeck in 1646 under the name Gottfried Kniller, Godfrey Kneller was a portrait painter whose name also appears in the form Gottfried Kneller. His father, Zachary Kniller, a…
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Robert Mangold Documented profileUnited States
Robert Mangold’s painting is distinguished by a minimalist language embodied in carefully defined formats and contours. His series of shaped canvases explore variations on motifs suc…
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Yvonne Canu Documented profileFrance
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…
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Arturo Ricci Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Arturo Ricci (1854–1919) is documented here through his identity and information relating to a work, La supplique. A sale notice states that the painting was purc…
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Hannah Höch Documented profileGermany
The German artist Hannah Höch uses photomontage and cut-and-paste collage as means of social and political critique. Her compositions parody bourgeois life and question representatio…
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Otto Herbert Hajek Documented profileGermany
Abstract sculptor, painter and graphic artist, Otto Herbert Hajek (1927–2005) developed a body of work that also extends into public space and is particularly visible in Stuttgart, h…
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Leonhard Rausch Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German landscape painter and engraver Leonhard Rausch, associated with Romanticism, was born in Jülich in 1813 and died in Düsseldorf in 1895. His preferred subjects range from t…
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Antoni Suchanek Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Polish painter Antoni Karol Suchanek, born in Rzeszów in 1901 and died in Gdynia in 1982, pursued his artistic practice for more than sixty years, according to W. Zmorzyński. In…
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August Rieger Documented profileAustria
August Rieger’s career took him from theological studies to financial service, where he worked as a civil servant. His work includes landscapes, still lifes and interiors, as well as…
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Thore Heramb Documented profileNorway
Born in Kristiania, now Oslo, Thore Heramb (1916–2014) was a Norwegian painter whose career combined an early presence in exhibitions with decorative commissions and a body of work d…
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Alastair Mackinven Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1971 in Clatterbridge, United Kingdom, and died in 2025 in London, Alastair Mackinven trained in art in Canada and London. He obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Alberta Coll…
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Georges Laporte Documented profileFrance
Painter, lithographer and illustrator, Georges-Charles Laporte developed a body of work in which seascape painting sits alongside a substantial body of illustration, notably for text…
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André Hambourg Documented profileFrance
The French painter, illustrator and lithographer André Hambourg brought together painting, printmaking and the printed image throughout his career. Born and died in Paris, he first s…
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Juan Genovés Documented profileSpain
The Spanish painter and graphic artist Juan Genovés Candel—also known in Catalan as Joan Genovés i Candel—developed a body of work shaped by the repressive context of the Franco dict…
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Carlo Grubacs Documented profileCountry to be documented
A pair of views of Venice by Carlo Grubacs shows the Basilica of Saint Mark and the Doge’s Palace in one, and the Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute in the other. Painted in oil on…
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José Camarón y Bonanat Documented profileSpain
José Camarón Boronat, also named José Camarón Bonanat by some biographers, was a Spanish painter and printmaker born in Segorbe in 1731. His practice encompassed painting, miniature…
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Winston Churchill Documented profileUnited Kingdom
For Winston Churchill (1874–1965), the British statesman, painting is presented as his principal leisure pursuit; the available information does not allow his artistic practice to be…
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Edward Bird Documented profileCountry to be documented
Edward Bird gives a prominent place to scenes of family life, a feature clearly documented in his choice of subjects. Before settling in Bristol in 1794 with the intention of establi…
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Franz West Documented profileAustria
Franz West (Vienna, 1947–2012), an Austrian artist, developed a practice in which sculpture directly engages the body and use. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under the…
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Raphaël Collin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Raphaël Collin (Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin) worked across genre painting, the nude, portraiture, decorative composition and illustration. He exhib…
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Pierre Gastaud Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and sculptor Pierre Gastaud developed an artistic practice that Gérald Schurr characterises as abstract landscape painting, at times in violent tones…
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Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profilePoland
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish artist whose practice spans painting, photography, posters, illustration and film. In his paintings, photographic images dr…
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Bernard Moninot Documented profileFrance
Born in 1949 in Le Fay, in Saône-et-Loire, Bernard Moninot develops a practice that engages with traces, shadows and drawing. From 1992, in the series Ombres portées, forms in enamel…
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Jaber Al Mahjoub Documented profileTunisia
Jaber Al Mahjoub’s work brings together several media and materials: gouache, acrylic painting and sculptures made with plaster bandages, to which a sales notice adds papier-mâché. D…
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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