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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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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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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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Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann was a German painter, notable for crowded triptychs and figurative works responding to Weimar Germany, exil...

German Social 20TH Century Figurative

8.6 Great

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Kara Walker

Kara Walker is an American artist known for black cut-paper silhouettes confronting slavery and race, with a major Tate...

Narrative American Contemporary 21ST Century

8.4 Great

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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall is an American painter whose large-scale works center Black life; his 2016 retrospective Mastry ope...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Figurative

8.3 Great

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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz is a German painter known for upside-down figures, a device he adopted in 1969 to disrupt conventional re...

German 20TH Century Figurative Neo Expressionism

8.3 Great

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Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous British street artist known for satirical stencils, including works painted on the West Bank barr...

Contemporary 21ST Century British Satirical

8.2 Great

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Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a Scottish-born painter known for atmospheric landscapes and memory-based images; his 1994 painting Canoe-...

Contemporary Canada 21ST Century Britain

8.2 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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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian painter known for pale, understated images drawn from history and media; he helped renew figura...

Contemporary 21ST Century Muted Belgian

7.9 Good

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Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary painter, born in 1962, known for the Superflat movement and anime-derived mo...

Contemporary Pop Japanese 21ST Century

7.9 Good

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Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann was a German Impressionist painter and Berlin Secession leader, noted for plein-air scenes and modern urb...

German 19TH Century Impressionism Figurative

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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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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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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Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili is a British painter, born in Manchester in 1968, who won the 1998 Turner Prize for layered works using glit...

Contemporary 21ST Century Britain Mixed Media

7.5 Good

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born painter, born in 1983, known for layered domestic scenes combining painting,...

Contemporary 21ST Century Collage Figurative

7.4 Good

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Lisa Yuskavage

Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter, born in 1962, known for psychologically charged figurative paintings that mix art...

American Contemporary 21ST Century Female

7.2 Good