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N° 3901 Valentin Oman Documented profile
Valentin Oman, born near Villach in 1935, is an Austrian artist from Carinthia’s Slovene community. He studied painting in Vienna with Hilda Jesser-Schmid, followed by printmaking in…
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N° 3902 Valery Koshlyakov Documented profile
Born in Salsk in 1962, Valery Koshlyakov works in painting and installation. He belonged to Art or Death, a group active in Rostov-on-Don and then Moscow in the late 1980s. His Europ…
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N° 3903 Vanessa Beecroft Documented profile
Vanessa Beecroft, born in Genoa in 1969, trained at the Brera Academy in Milan. Since her first performance in 1993, she has developed a sequence of works identified by the initials…
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N° 3904 Verner Thomé Documented profile
Verner Thomé, born in Alajärvi in 1878 and who died in Helsinki in 1953, was a Finnish painter attentive to the possibilities of colour. After training in lithography, he studied in…
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N° 3905 Victor Adam Documented profile
Victor Adam (1801–1866), also known as Jean-Victor Adam, was born in Paris and died in Viroflay. He trained with his father Jean Adam, Charles Meynier and Jean-Baptiste Regnault. A p…
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N° 3906 Vincent Courdouan Documented profile
Born in Toulon in 1810, Vincent Courdouan died in the same city in 1893. He trained with Pierre Letuaire and Félix Brun before joining Paulin Guérin’s studio in Paris. Landscape and…
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N° 3907 Vincent Haddelsey Documented profile
The British artist Vincent Haddelsey lived from 1934 to 2010. Among the works listed under his name is Queen’s Parade, an oil painting on canvas measuring 500 × 650 mm. The lot descr…
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N° 3908 Vincent Roux Documented profile
Vincent Roux (1928–1991), born in Marseille, entered his home city’s École supérieure des beaux-arts in 1948 and enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1953. His training brough…
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N° 3909 Vincenzo Cabianca Documented profile
Vincenzo Cabianca (1827–1902), born in Verona and deceased in Rome, participated in the investigations of the Macchiaioli. Following studies in Venice and a stay in Milan, he settled…
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N° 3910 Vittorio Zecchin Documented profile
Vittorio Zecchin (1878–1947), born in Murano, developed a practice spanning painting and the decorative arts. His encounters with the work of Jan Toorop and Gustav Klimt at the Venic…
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N° 3911 Vladimir Nemukhin Documented profile
Vladimir Nemukhin (1925–2016) belonged to Soviet unofficial art and the Lianozovo circle. He studied with Pyotr Sokolov, who introduced him to the experiments of the Russian avant-ga…
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N° 3912 Vladimir Udatny Documented profile
Vladimir Udatny (1920–1972), listed under the designation “YU” in an auction catalogue, is documented by a work signed and dated on the reverse of its frame. Offered as lot 1257, it…
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N° 3913 Vlastimil Rada Documented profile
Vlastimil Rada (1895–1962) is presented as a Czech illustrator, painter, writer and university teacher. A bibliographical reference associated with a work mentions his name alongside…
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N° 3914 Walala Tjapaltjarri Documented profile
A Pintupi artist from Australia's Western Desert, Walala Tjapaltjarri grew up in a nomadic family group before joining the community of Kiwirrkurra in 1984. Encouraged by his brother…
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N° 3915 Walt Disney Documented profile
American producer, director, screenwriter, actor and animator Walter Elias Disney — known as Walt Disney — initially develops his work around drawing and animated films before expand…
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N° 3916 Walter Uhl Documented profile
Walter Uhl (1907–1990) is documented by La route blanche, an oil painting on panel, signed and dated 1969, measuring 66 × 82 cm. The work is listed as lot 1139 in the Piguet sale of…
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N° 3917 Walter Wörn Documented profile
Born in Stuttgart in 1901 and deceased in that city in 1963, Walter Wörn is cited in a biography of Wilhelm Adolf Geyer among the artist friends from his student years. The same sour…
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N° 3918 Walther Bötticher Documented profile
Walther Bötticher belongs to German Expressionism, and his work is distinguished by a relationship with nature in which sensitive observation accords with a decorative conception of…
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N° 3919 Werner Berg Documented profile
Werner Berg (1904–1981), born in Elberfeld, abandoned an initial commercial and academic path to devote himself to painting. After studying art in Vienna and Munich, he settled in 19…
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N° 3920 Werner Drewes Documented profile
Werner Drewes (1899–1985), born in Germany and resident in the United States from 1930, developed a practice as a painter and printmaker. His Bauhaus training brought him into contac…
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N° 3921 Werner Schramm Documented profile
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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N° 3922 Werner Tübke Documented profile
Werner Tübke (1929–2004) studied in Leipzig and subsequently in Greifswald. He developed a figurative art informed by the Italian Renaissance. His compositions gather numerous figure…
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N° 3923 Wilhelm Gallhof Documented profile
Wilhelm Gallhof (1878–1918), from Iserlohn, worked in painting and printmaking. The register of Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts records his enrolment on 22 October 1900, aged twenty-tw…
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N° 3924 Wilhelm Grögler Documented profile
The German painter and illustrator Wilhelm Grögler was born in 1839 in Uherské Hradiště and died in Munich in 1897. Based in Munich, he was not enrolled at the city’s Academy; little…
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N° 3925 Wilhelm Hensel Documented profile
Wilhelm Hensel (1794–1861), a Prussian portrait painter and engraver, was born in Trebbin and died in Berlin. His training began in Berlin: he enrolled at the Academy of Architecture…
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N° 3926 Wilhelm Kray Documented profile
Wilhelm Kray (Berlin, 1828 – Munich, 1889) was a German painter of portraits, genre scenes and marine subjects. After working as a goldsmith, he began studying at the Berlin Academy…
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N° 3927 Wilhelm Laage Documented profile
Wilhelm Laage, born in Stellingen in 1868, trained in Hamburg and then Karlsruhe with Alfred Lichtwark's support. He subsequently followed his teacher Leopold von Kalckreuth to Stutt…
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N° 3928 Wilhelm Sasnal Documented profile
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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N° 3929 Wilhelm Thöny Documented profile
Wilhelm Thöny, an Austrian painter, was born in Graz in 1888 and died in New York in 1949. A watercolour on paper entitled “Springbrunnen in Paris” is dated 1937. The sale catalogue…
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N° 3930 Wilhelm Volz Documented profile
The German painter and lithographer Wilhelm Volz (1855–1901) is also listed as a painter of historical, genre and landscape scenes, as well as an illustrator and etcher. These detail…
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N° 3931 William Edward Norton Documented profile
William Edward Norton, born in Boston in 1843, built his artistic career around an early experience of the sea. Childhood excursions along the American East Coast and subsequent sea…
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N° 3932 William Fleming Vallance Documented profile
William Fleming Vallance, born in Paisley in 1827 and deceased in 1904, was a Scottish painter particularly associated with maritime subjects. He trained at the Trustees School under…
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N° 3933 William Hoggatt Documented profile
William Hoggatt (1880–1961) was born in Lancaster, where he worked for a stained-glass maker and attended the Storey Institute’s art school. He later settled on the Isle of Man, livi…
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N° 3934 William Kentridge Documented profile
William Kentridge, born in Johannesburg in 1955, develops a practice in which drawing, cinema and theatre continually inform one another. His animation technique uses charcoal drawin…
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N° 3935 William Lionel Wyllie Documented profile
The English painter of maritime subjects William Lionel Wyllie (1851–1931) is documented as depicting boats, shores and the people who frequent them. Born in Camden Town, London, he…
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N° 3936 William Tomkins Documented profile
William Tomkins was an eighteenth-century British painter who died in London in 1792. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1761, and subsequently at the Society of Artist…
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N° 3937 William Trost Richards Documented profile
William Trost Richards (1833–1905), born in Philadelphia and deceased in Newport, was an American landscape and marine painter. Associated with the Hudson River School and the Americ…
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N° 3938 William Turner Dannat Documented profile
William Turner Dannat (1853–1929), also known as William T. Dannat and William Turner Dannatt, is documented by works ranging from preparatory studies to portrait painting. The Art I…
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N° 3939 Willy Herrmann Documented profile
Willy Herrmann (1895–1963), born in Berlin-Spandau, maintained strong ties to Berlin throughout his life. After serving in the First World War, he returned to Berlin in 1919 and sett…
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N° 3940 Willy Stieborsky Documented profile
Georg Willy Stieborsky, known as Willy Stieborsky, was an Austrian painter, draughtsman and stage designer, born in Vienna in 1881 and died in 1966. Trained at the Academy of Vienna,…
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N° 3941 Winston Churchill Documented profile
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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N° 3942 Wojciech Sadley Documented profile
Wojciech Sadley, born in Lublin in 1932 and deceased in 2023, was a Polish artist working across painting and textile art. Following musical studies, he trained in interior architect…
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N° 3943 Wright Barker Documented profile
Wright Barker was a British painter whose work includes animals, rural scenes and mythological subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1891 and 1938 and lived for a time…
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N° 3944 Yakov Feldman Documented profile
Yakov Feldman was born in Vitebsk in 1969 and trained in that Belarusian city. He completed art school in 1987, then studied textile design between 1988 and 1990. He subsequently mov…
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N° 3945 Yang Jiechang Documented profile
Yang Jiechang trained in Foshan and then at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1982 and teaching there until 1988. His work appeared in Magiciens de la Terre in Paris…
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N° 3946 Yehudit Sasportas Documented profile
Yehudit Sasportas, born in Ashdod in 1969, is an Israeli artist whose work combines drawing, sculpture, video and sound. She develops installations responding to the architecture of…
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N° 3947 Yoshitomo Nara Documented profile
Born in Hirosaki in 1959, Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese artist whose childlike figures move between defiance, unease and melancholy. Their apparent simplicity opens a space for inner…
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N° 3948 Yun Hyong-keun Documented profile
Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007) was a Korean painter associated with Dansaekhwa. His life was marked by war and repeated political imprisonment. From the 1970s, he developed paintings bas…
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N° 3949 Yves Alix Documented profile
French painter, printmaker and writer Yves Alix (1890–1969) joined the Académie Ranson in 1909 and began teaching drawing there in 1918. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants fr…
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N° 3950 Yvonne Canu Documented profile
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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N° 3951 Zbigniew Rogalski Documented profile
Born in Dąbrowa Białostocka in 1974, Zbigniew Rogalski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 1999, studying in Jerzy Kałucki’s studio. His practice combines painting,…
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N° 3952 Zlatko Prica Documented profile
Zlatko Prica (1916–2003), a Croatian painter and printmaker born in Pécs, graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts in 1940. His journey to India in 1952 preceded the Samobor cy…
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N° 3953 Zoma Baitler Documented profile
Zoma Baitler (1908–1994), a Uruguayan artist born in Lithuania, first trained with Paul Kaufman before settling in Montevideo in 1927. There he pursued his work in contact with Joaqu…
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N° 3954 Zygmunt Waliszewski Documented profile
The Polish painter Zygmunt Waliszewski was born in Saint Petersburg in 1897 and died in Krakow in 1936. A Don Quixote catalogued under his name is described as watercolour and gouach…
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N° 3955 జాన్ సింగర్ సార్జెంట్ Documented profile
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), an American painter born in Florence, grew up in a family that travelled through Europe. Following initial artistic training in Florence, he entered…
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N° 3956 海因里希·克莱 Documented profile
The German artist Heinrich Kley (1863–1945) is a painter and illustrator. He was born in Karlsruhe on 15 April 1863. He studied applied arts at the Karlsruhe Academy and then complet…
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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