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Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, became a major German painter through blurred photo-based images and abstracti...

German Contemporary 20TH Century Abstract

9.4 Excellent

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent was an American portrait painter active in Europe, famed for society portraits and the controversial...

Realism American 19TH Century Portrait

9.3 Excellent

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Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter known for scenes of urban isolation, especially the 1942 diner painting Ni...

Realism American 20TH Century Urban

9.2 Excellent

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for drip paintings made on the floor, including...

American 20TH Century Drip Abstract Expressionism

9.1 Excellent

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and Color Field pioneer, known for luminous stacked rectangles in works...

American 20TH Century Meditative Color Field

9.1 Excellent

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud was a British painter, noted for unsparing portraits and nudes built from thick paint, including Benefits S...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter in London and Paris, best known for the 1871 portrait Arrangement in...

American 19TH Century Atmospheric Portrait

9.0 Excellent

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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, born in Georgia in 1930, became a major American painter and printmaker by using familiar signs in works s...

American 20TH Century Pop Art Neo Dada

8.9 Great

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Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly was an American painter, known for calligraphic marks, classical references, and long residence in Italy afte...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Calligraphic

8.9 Great

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Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist, known for Combine works that merged painting and objects, including Monogram...

American 20TH Century Pop Art Collage

8.8 Great

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Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor, born in 1884, known in Paris for elongated portraits and nudes be...

Italian 20TH Century Portrait Modernism

8.8 Great

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Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke was a German painter who co-founded Capitalist Realism in 1963 and used dots, fabric, and irony to question...

German Contemporary Conceptual 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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David Hockney

David Hockney, born in Britain in 1937, became associated with Pop art and California pool scenes, including A Bigger Sp...

Pool Contemporary 20TH Century Pop Art

8.7 Great

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American Neo-Expressionist painter, notable for text-filled figures and symbols after his la...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Street Art

8.7 Great

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Yves Klein

Yves Klein was a French artist known for monochrome blue paintings and performances, including works using International...

Blue French Contemporary 20TH Century

8.7 Great

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Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an American artist and painter, known for bold line figures that grew from New York subway drawings and...

American Contemporary Pop 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Robert Henri

Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher who led The Eight in 1908 and helped define Ashcan School urban realism...

Realism American 20TH Century Portrait

7.8 Good

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Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American painter known for flat, large-scale portraits and landscapes, a style he refined in New York fr...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Flat

7.7 Good

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Kehinde Wiley

Kehinde Wiley is an American portrait painter known for placing Black sitters in Old Master poses, including Barack Obam...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Portrait

7.5 Good

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Alfred Leslie

Alfred Leslie was an American painter and filmmaker who moved from Abstract Expressionism to stark figurative portraits...

Realism American 20TH Century Portrait

6.7 Fair