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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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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter, notable for dream imagery and the 1931 painting The Persistence of Memor...

Spanish 20TH Century Surrealism Dreamlike

9.1 Excellent

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for gestural works and the controver...

20TH Century United States Figurative Abstract Expressionism

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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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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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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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian Expressionist painter, notable for psychologically charged portraits and the 1914 painti...

Austrian 20TH Century Portrait Figurative

8.2 Great

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Chuck Close

Chuck Close was an American painter known for large-scale photorealist portraits, later using gridded color cells after...

American Contemporary 20TH Century Portrait

8.2 Great

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach is a German-born British painter, born in Berlin in 1931, known for thickly worked portraits and Camden T...

20TH Century British Impasto Figurative

8.1 Great

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Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas is a South African-born painter based in the Netherlands, known for psychologically charged portraits made...

Contemporary Psychological 20TH Century South African

7.9 Good

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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero was a Colombian painter and sculptor, born in Medellin in 1932, known for enlarged figures in the style...

Contemporary 20TH Century Voluminous Colombian

7.8 Good

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Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is a British painter known for monumental depictions of flesh and bodies; she emerged with the Young Briti...

Contemporary 21ST Century Large Scale British

7.7 Good

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Leon Kossoff

Leon Kossoff was a British painter, born in London in 1926, known for heavily impastoed portraits and city scenes of pos...

20TH Century Urban British Figurative

7.7 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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Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown is a British painter based in New York, noted for energetic, semi-abstract figure painting and a 2023 surve...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Figurative

7.6 Good

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Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin was a British painter, born in 1932, known for small, intensely colored abstract works that evoke memorie...

Contemporary 20TH Century British Abstract

7.6 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