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Paul Jean Clays Documented profileBelgium
Born in Bruges and deceased in 1900, Paul Jean Clays devoted much of his work to marine painting. His experience as a sailor preceded his training with Théodore Gudin in Paris. Obser…
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Paul Jenkins Documented profileUnited States
The American painter Paul Jenkins — also known as William Paul Jenkins (1923–2012) — places light-colour at the centre of his practice, with a particular interest in the prism. He st…
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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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Paul Kallos Documented profileFrance
Paul Kallos (1928–2001) was a French painter of Hungarian origin, born in Hernádnémeti. Deported to Auschwitz in 1944, he returned to Hungary and studied at the Budapest art school.…
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Paul Kleinschmidt Documented profileGermany
Paul Kleinschmidt (1883–1949), a German painter born in Bublitz, Pomerania, and who died in Bensheim. The Art Institute of Chicago lists *Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace*, dated…
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Paul Kutscha Documented profileAustria
Initially trained at a building school, Paul Kutscha-Arend studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from the spring of 1891, under Gabriel von Hackl and, from January 1893, Joha…
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Paul Madeline Documented profileFrance
Autumn in the Creuse holds an important place in the painting of Paul Madeline (1863–1920). His discovery of the region in 1894, following encounters with Maurice Rollinat and Léon D…
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Paul Mathias Padua Documented profileGermany
Paul Mathias Padua developed his career in Munich’s artistic circles after abandoning his academic training early. His initial painting drew on Wilhelm Leibl, while later work moved…
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Paul Müller-Kaempff Documented profileCountry to be documented
The German painter and lithographer Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) developed a practice extending from painting to several other techniques and disciplines. After studying at the Dü…
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Paul Nash Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Paul Nash (1889–1946) was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. After military service during the First World War, he became an official war artist in 1917. The…
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Paul Neagu Documented profileUnited Kingdom · Romania
Paul Neagu (1938–2004) brought the body, geometry and sensory perception into a shared artistic enquiry. After working as an electrician and topographer, he studied at the Nicolae Gr…
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Paul Paede Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Paede was born in Berlin in 1868 and died in Munich in 1929. Works documented in auction notices include female nudes, reclining or standing. Liegender weibli…
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Paul Ranson Documented profileFrance
Paul-Élie Ranson (1861–1909), born in Limoges and deceased in Paris, developed a distinctive voice within the Nabis. After training in applied art and at the Académie Julian, he help…
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Paul Rebeyrolle Documented profileFrance
Painter and sculptor Paul Rebeyrolle developed a body of work in which nature, society and humanity recur as themes, in a painting marked by a pronounced materiality. Born on 3 Novem…
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Paul Saïn Documented profileFrance
Born and died in Avignon, the painter Paul Saïn grounds his work in landscape: his stays in Corsica notably fostered a body of rural views, often sketched on small panels, in a natur…
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Paul Sérusier Documented profileFrance
Paul Sérusier (1864–1927) played a decisive part in the formation of the Nabis group. A student at the Académie Julian from 1885, he met Paul Gauguin at Pont-Aven in 1888. Under Gaug…
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Paul Signac Documented profileFrance
Self-taught French artist Paul Signac (1863–1935) is described by the National Gallery as an important figure in Neo-Impressionism. Influenced by Seurat, he adopted Pointillism, a te…
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Paul Thek Documented profileUnited States
Paul Thek’s career is marked by the Technological Reliquaries, which were the subject of three solo exhibitions at the Stable Gallery and Pace Gallery in New York between 1964 and 19…
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Paul Troger Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in Welsberg in Tyrol in 1698, Paul Troger received his initial training from Giuseppe Alberti. An extended stay in Italy took him to Venice, Rome, Naples and Bologna, where he a…
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Paul Uwe Dreyer Documented profileGermany
The German painter Paul Uwe Dreyer (1939–2008) is documented here by Zonenbild 4, a work that the sale notice states is signed, dated and titled on the reverse. The provenance given…
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Paul Van Hoeydonck Documented profileBelgium
For Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925–2025), the Belgian artist born in Antwerp, the transition from surface to space became a driving force. Beginning with painting and collage in the 1950s,…
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Paul-Vanier Beaulieu Documented profileCanada
Trained at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, Paul-Vanier Beaulieu initially worked in advertising before moving to Paris in 1938. Exchanges between France and Quebec subsequently sha…
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Paul Wunderlich Documented profileGermany
Paul Wunderlich (1927–2010) was a German painter, printmaker and sculptor associated with fantastic realism. Trained in Hamburg, he worked with the Paris printer Desjobert in 1961, t…
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Paula Modersohn-Becker Documented profileCountry to be documented
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) was a German painter born in Dresden. After training in Bremen, she moved to Worpswede in 1898 and became involved with its artists’ colony. She ma…
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Pavel Pepperstein Documented profileRussia
Born in Moscow in 1966, Pavel Pepperstein is an artist, writer and theorist. The son of painter Viktor Pivovarov and writer Irina Pivovarova, he belongs to a generation shaped by Mos…
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Pavel Tchelitchew Documented profileUnited States
Pavel Tchelitchev, also known as Tchelitchew, was a painter and stage designer born in Russia in 1898 who died in 1957. After working in Kyiv and Berlin, he settled in Paris before m…
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Pavlos Dionyssopoulos Documented profileGreece
Pávlos, the professional name of Pavlos Dionyssopoulos (1930–2019), was a Greek artist born in Filiatra and deceased in Athens. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts…
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Peder Mørk Mønsted Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Danish realist painter Peder Mørk Mønsted—also known as Peter Mork Monsted—was born in Grenå on 10 December 1859 and died in Fredensborg on 20 June 1941. He first trained at the…
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Pedro Flores García Documented profileSpain
Pedro Flores García is distinguished by a body of painting that the source describes as avant-garde, structured by a geometry of forms and planes, thick outlines and intense colours.…
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Pedro Moreno Meyerhoff Documented profileSpain
Pedro Moreno Meyerhoff, born in Barcelona in 1954, discovered painting through his father, an amateur painter, and continued as a self-taught artist. His artistic activity developed…
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Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio Documented profileSpain
Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio helped found the painting academy in Seville alongside Murillo in 1660. Joining the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem the following year accompanied a car…
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Pedro Txillida Documented profileSpain
Pedro Txillida, born in San Sebastián in 1952, is a Spanish painter and sculptor. The son of Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce, he studied at Madrid’s Complutense University betwee…
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Per Kirkeby Documented profileCountry to be documented
Per Kirkeby (1938–2018), a Danish artist, develops a body of work that an auction house text describes as inspired by nature and connected to abstraction. The documents show a range…
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Petar Lubarda Documented profileCountry to be documented
Petar Lubarda began his training in Belgrade before moving to Paris in 1926, where he continued studying independently in museums and galleries. Following a first solo exhibition in…
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Peter August Böckstiegel Documented profileGermany
Peter August Böckstiegel (1889–1951) was a German painter and etcher from Aroode, now part of Werther in Westphalia. Born into a small farming family, he began training in painting i…
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Peter Brüning Documented profileGermany
Peter Brüning was a German painter and sculptor associated with postwar Informel. He studied under Willi Baumeister in Stuttgart before spending time in Paris, where he met Hans Hart…
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Peter Caulitz Documented profileGermany
Peter Caulitz, born around 1650 and deceased in Berlin in 1719, was a German painter of landscapes and animals. He trained in Italy, particularly Rome, before returning to Berlin. In…
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Peter Dreher Documented profileGermany
The German artist Peter Dreher, born in Mannheim in 1932, devotes his principal series, Tag um Tag guter Tag (“Day after day, a good day”), to the repeated depiction of the same glas…
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Peter Gertner Documented profileGermany
Peter Gärtner, also known as Peter Gertner, was a German painter active during the first half of the sixteenth century. Associated with the artistic milieu of Nuremberg, he worked fo…
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Peter Klasen Documented profileGermany
Born in Lübeck in 1935, Peter Klasen draws on the urban environment in his work as a painter, photographer and sculptor. After studying art in Berlin from 1956 to 1959, he moved to P…
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Peter Lanyon Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Peter Lanyon’s work combines abstract values with ideas about landscape and the figure. From 1959, he took up gliding; this experience opened up new perspectives on landscape, which…
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Peter Lely Documented profileCountry to be documented
Peter Lely was born in Soest in 1618 to Dutch parents and died in London in 1680. He trained in Haarlem before moving to England around 1643, becoming a leading portraitist of the co…
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Peter Paul Rubens Documented profileCountry to be documented
In Antwerp, he receives a humanist education, including the study of Latin and classical literature; after completing his training, he joins the Guild of Saint Luke as an independent…
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Peter Phillips Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Born in Birmingham in 1939, Peter Phillips is an English artist associated with Pop Art, whose practice extends from oil painting to collage, sculpture and architecture, as well as m…
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Peter Royen Documented profileNetherlands
Peter Royen (1923–2013), born in Amsterdam, was a Dutch painter whose career developed in Düsseldorf. He moved there in 1946 to study with Otto Pankok at the art academy. Active in s…
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Peter Spens Documented profileCountry to be documented
Peter Spens (born in 1961) is the artist of Night Games, Beach Volleyball, an oil painting on panel dated 2016. The work’s description states that it is signed, dated and inscribed “…
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Peter Struycken Documented profileNetherlands
Born in The Hague in 1939, Peter Struycken connects painting, computation and the design of space. Trained at the Royal Academy in his native city, he headed an environmental art dep…
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Peter van de Velde Documented profileCountry to be documented
Peter van den Velde, also known as Pieter van de Velde, was a Flemish marine painter born in Antwerp in 1634. He became a master of the city’s Guild of Saint Luke in 1654, working wi…
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Petrus Johannes van Regemorter Documented profileBelgium
Petrus Johannes van Regemorter (1755–1830) worked within the artistic life of Antwerp. Trained at the academy in his native city, he painted landscapes, scenes of everyday life and h…
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Petrus Josephus Lutgers Documented profileNetherlands
Petrus Joseph Lutgers was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and lithographer whose career unfolded during the nineteenth century. Born in Amsterdam and active notably in Loenen aan de Vec…
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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