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Sarkis Diranian Documented profileFrance
Sarkis Diranian, a painter of Armenian origin, was born in Constantinople in 1854. He trained at Pierre-Désiré Guillemet's school of drawing and painting. His career subsequently too…
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Saul Steinberg Documented profileRomania · United States
Saul Erik Steinberg (1914–1999), a Romanian-American artist, developed a body of work spanning editorial drawing, books, mural painting and applied design. The covers, drawings and c…
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Sava Sekulić Documented profileCroatia
Sava Sekulić began painting in 1932, but did not devote himself to it full time until 1962, when he retired. Before then, he worked, among other occupations, as an agricultural labou…
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Saverio Dalla Rosa Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Saverio dalla Rosa, whose dates are given as 1745–1821, was the nephew and pupil of Giambettino Cignaroli. A drawing entitled “Landschaft mit rastendem Hirten” is…
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Sawat Tantisuk Documented profileThailand
Sawat Tantisuk (1925–2009), also known as Sawasdi Tantisuk, was a Thai painter born in Thonburi. He studied at Silpakorn University and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ro…
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Scipione Vannutelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
Scipione Vannutelli was an Italian painter born in Rome who died in 1894. A pupil of Tommaso Minardi and then Carl Wurzinger, he developed a practice embracing history painting, port…
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Scott Noel Documented profileCountry to be documented
Scott Noel, born in Charlotte in 1955, developed his career in Philadelphia, moving there in 1978 after studying at Washington University in Saint Louis. A painter and teacher, he wo…
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Scottie Wilson Documented profileUnited Kingdom
Scottie Wilson (1888–1972), born Louis Freeman, was a Scottish artist without academic art training. After moving to Canada, where he worked as a second-hand dealer, he began drawing…
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Sean Scully Documented profileIreland · United States
Sean Scully’s paintings are often arranged in overlapping bands or blocks of colour, distributed along horizontal and vertical axes. Their layers strike a balance between calm and vi…
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Sebastiaen Vrancx Documented profileCountry to be documented
According to Carel van Mander, Sébastien Vrancx was apprenticed to Adam van Noort. His collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Elder distinguish the roles: Brueghel painted the landscap…
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Sébastien Bourdon Documented profileFrance
Sébastien Bourdon, born in Montpellier in 1616, who died in Paris in 1671, practised history painting, portraiture and genre scenes. His Italian stay from 1634 to 1637 brought him in…
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Seif Wanly Documented profileEgypt
The Egyptian painter Seif Wanly, born in Alexandria in 1906, worked in Alexandria’s customs archives and began painting with his brother Adham. From 1929, the two brothers studied wi…
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SEO Documented profileSouth Korea
SEO, born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1977, is an artist based in Berlin. She studied at Chosun University from 1996 to 2000, receiving training that included traditional ink paintin…
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Serge Charchoune Documented profileFrance
Serge Charchoune’s practice unfolds between two documented orientations: purist paintings and, in parallel, a return to ornamental painting in the series *Elastic Landscapes*. In Par…
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Serge Férat Documented profileFrance
Serge Férat (1881–1958), born Sergei Yastrebzov in Moscow, settled in Paris in 1900. He attended Bouguereau’s classes at the Académie Julian and initially exhibited under the pseudon…
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Serge Fiorio Documented profileFrance
Based in Montjustin from the spring of 1947, Serge Fiorio lived and painted there until his death in 2011; his arrival with his family at the village’s former presbytery marks a peri…
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Serge Lifar Documented profileFrance
Serge Lifar (1905–1986) is a figure in dance whose career combines choreographic creation and the reform of technique. He studies dance in Kyiv with Bronislava Nijinska, then works i…
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Serge Poliakoff Documented profileFrance
Serge Poliakoff’s painting is characterised by compositions in which areas of different colours are juxtaposed. His shift from a hitherto academic style to abstract painting is assoc…
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Sergey Vinogradov Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Russian painter Sergei Arsenyevich Vinogradov (1869–1938) trained in Moscow, where he studied from 1880 to 1889 at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, notably und…
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Sergio Dangelo Documented profileItaly
Sergio Dangelo, an Italian artist who died in 2022, participated in the emergence of Arte Nucleare, a group founded in 1951 with Enrico Baj and Gianni Dova. His practice belongs to t…
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Sérgio Ferro Documented profileBrazil
Sérgio Ferro, born in Curitiba in 1938, is a Brazilian painter, architect and theorist. Educated at the University of São Paulo, he developed a sustained enquiry into the material co…
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Sergius Hruby Documented profileGermany
Sergius Hruby (1869–1943), an Austrian artist born in Vienna, combined graphic work, decorative arts and teaching. He studied at Vienna’s School of Applied Arts and attended August E…
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Servando Cabrera Moreno Documented profileCuba
Born in Havana in 1923, Servando Cabrera Moreno was a Cuban painter who lived until 1981. After graduating from the San Alejandro Academy in 1942, he continued his training at the Ar…
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Sérvulo Esmeraldo Documented profileBrazil
Sérvulo Esmeraldo, born in Crato in 1929 and deceased in Fortaleza in 2017, combined printmaking, drawing and sculpture in an exploration of line and geometry. After beginnings in wo…
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Seund Ja Rhee Documented profileSouth Korea
She favours woodblock printing and makes her prints by hand; sometimes, she presses the carved blocks directly onto the paper. Her visual vocabulary draws on the symbols and characte…
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Sherrie Levine Documented profileUnited States
Sherrie Levine, born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, in 1947, works across photography, painting and sculpture. Following studies at the University of Wisconsin, she moved to New York in…
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Shibu Natesan Documented profileCountry to be documented
The catalogue attributes to Shibu Natesan the work “Nirvikalpasamadhi,” executed in oil on canvas in 2006 and measuring 180 × 230 cm. On the reverse are the inscription “NIRVIKALPA S…
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Shirley Goldfarb Documented profileUnited States
Shirley Goldfarb (1925–1980) studied at New York’s Art Students League after a brief involvement with theatre. There she met the draughtsman Gregory Masurovsky, whom she married in 1…
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Shirley Jaffe Documented profileFrance · United States
The published provenance of Yellow Moon mentions the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris, followed by a Swiss private owner who is said to have acquired the work from that gallery at the…
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Shlomo Koren Documented profileIsrael · Netherlands
Born in Cologne in 1932, Shlomo Koren left Germany with his parents in 1936; the family settled in Palestine under the British Mandate. He trained at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem…
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Shmuel Shapiro Documented profileUnited States
The documented career of Shmuel Shapiro links several places of study in the United States: he studied at the Art School in Hartford from 1939 to 1943, then resumed his studies there…
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Shōichi Hasegawa Documented profileJapan
The Japanese painter and printmaker Shōichi Hasegawa (1929–2023) developed an abstract body of work that brings together East Asian calligraphy, the traditional symbolism of forms an…
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Sidney Nolan Documented profileCountry to be documented
Sidney Nolan (1917–1992), born in Melbourne, was a major figure in twentieth-century Australian art. Beginning in commercial drawing, he became associated with John and Sunday Reed a…
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Siebe Johannes ten Cate Documented profileNetherlands
Born in Sneek in 1858 and died in Paris in 1908, Siebe Johannes ten Cate developed a body of work in which landscapes and urban views often appear in rain or snow. This preference fo…
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Siegfried Anzinger Documented profileAustria
Siegfried Anzinger moved to Cologne in 1982. His exhibition history includes documenta 7 in Kassel, Zeitgeist in Berlin and the Venice Biennale in 1988. He received the Oskar Kokosch…
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Siegfried Rischar Documented profileGermany
Siegfried Rischar (1924–2009) was a German painter and graphic artist closely associated with his native Aschaffenburg. After the war he studied at Frankfurt’s Städel, but financial…
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Siegward Sprotte Documented profileGermany
The German painter Siegward Sprotte, born in 1913 and died in 2004, is described as having first been a private pupil of Adolf Dahle. In 1938, he took part in the Berlin exhibition o…
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Sigmar Polke Documented profileGermany
Sigmar Polke, born in 1941 in Oels, now Oleśnica in Poland, made experimentation a guiding principle of his work. After an apprenticeship in a stained-glass workshop, he studied at t…
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Silvano Bozzolini Documented profileItaly
Silvano Bozzolini’s practice spans abstract painting, works on paper and stained glass. After creating his first abstract painting in 1946, he pursues wood engraving, illustration an…
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Silvio Bicchi Documented profileItaly
Born in Livorno, Silvio Bicchi (1874–1948) trained with Giovanni Fattori at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts alongside his brother Ottorino. He became known for illustrations of the…
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Silvio Poma Documented profileCountry to be documented
Silvio Poma is known for his landscapes and views of lakes, particularly in Lombardy. In the following decades, his exhibitions span much of Italy. A view of Lake Maggiore is present…
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Simon Andreas Krausz Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Simon Andreas Krausz lived from 1760 to 1825. A work referenced under his name is executed in pen and brush, in brown and black; it bears an indistinct signature at…
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Simon Bussy Documented profileFrance
Simon Bussy (1870–1954), born in Dole, began training at his hometown’s drawing school before attending the decorative arts school and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited…
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Simon de Vlieger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Simon de Vlieger was born in Rotterdam in 1601, according to one source, while another places his birth around the same year; his earliest known works date from 162…
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Simon English Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born in 1959, Simon English studied at London's Central School of Arts. He came to attention on the London art scene in 1994 through Young British Art III at the Saatchi Gallery. His…
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Simon Hantaï Documented profileFrance · Hungary
Simon Hantaï (1922–2008), a Hungarian-born painter who became French, arrived in Paris in 1948. His early experiments combined collage, scraping, rubbing and paint runs. Following a…
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Simon Kramer Documented profileNetherlands
Auction listings record a range of subjects in Simon Kramer’s work, from floral still lifes to bazaar and street scenes. A signed floral still life is executed in oil on canvas and m…
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Simon Pietersz Verelst Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Simon Pietersz Verelst, born in The Hague in 1644 and died in London in 1721, is generally known as Simon Verelst. He divided his career between the United Province…
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Simon Vouet Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris in 1590, Simon Vouet settled in Rome in 1613 before returning to France in 1627. His early interest in Caravaggio gave way to painting informed by more colourful Italia…
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Simone Pignoni Documented profileCountry to be documented
Simone Pignoni, born in Florence in 1611 and deceased there in 1698, worked as a painter and draughtsman. Trained by Francesco Furini among other teachers, he explored female figures…
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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