swap_horiz Roger Bissière Alternatives

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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a French painter, notable as a leader of Fauvism after the 1905 Salon d'Automne and for bold color in...

French 20TH Century Decorative Colorist

9.4 Excellent

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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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Kazimir Malevich

Kazimir Malevich was a Russian avant-garde painter who founded Suprematism and presented the radical Black Square in Pet...

Russian 20TH Century Suprematism Abstract

9.4 Excellent

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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, notable as a pioneer of abstract art and cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter in Munic...

Russian 20TH Century Pioneer Abstract

9.3 Excellent

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Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic painter, notable for Liberty Leading the People (1830) and his influence on 19th-...

French 19TH Century Romanticism History Painting

9.1 Excellent

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss born artist associated with Germany, notable for playful abstraction, teaching at the Bauhaus from...

Germany Switzerland 20TH Century Abstract

9.0 Excellent

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Georges Braque

Georges Braque was a French painter, notable for cofounding Cubism with Pablo Picasso and for analytic still lifes made...

French Modernist 20TH Century Collage

9.0 Excellent

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró was a Catalan Spanish painter, notable for Surrealist biomorphic signs, bright color, and works such as The Fa...

Spanish 20TH Century Biomorphic Abstract

9.0 Excellent

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Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, born in 1867, and a founder of Les Nabis, known for color-rich interiors, domestic...

French 20TH Century Post Impressionism Colorist

8.7 Great

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Pierre Soulages

Pierre Soulages was a French painter known for black abstract canvases and his Outrenoir series, which he developed from...

Black French 20TH Century Abstract

8.5 Great

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Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia was a French painter, born in 1879, associated with Dada and abstraction, known for irreverent machine i...

French Avant Garde 20TH Century Abstract

8.4 Great

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Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay was a Ukrainian-born French painter, born in 1885, who co-founded Orphism with Robert Delaunay and applie...

France 20TH Century Abstract Ukraine

8.2 Great

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Nicolas de Staël

Nicolas de Staël was a French-Russian painter whose thickly painted abstractions and landscapes made him a major postwar...

Russia France 20TH Century Landscape

8.2 Great

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Jean Fautrier

Jean Fautrier was a French painter linked to Art Informel, noted for the Otages series of the 1940s responding to wartim...

French 20TH Century Abstract Impasto

8.1 Great

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Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay was a French painter, notable for Orphism, abstract color discs, and Eiffel Tower paintings made in Pari...

French 20TH Century Cubism Colorist

8.0 Great

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André Derain

André Derain was a French painter, notable for cofounding Fauvism with Henri Matisse and exhibiting vivid Collioure land...

French 20TH Century Landscape Colorist

7.9 Good

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Sam Francis

Sam Francis was an American abstract painter associated with Abstract Expressionism, known for luminous color fields mad...

American 20TH Century Lyrical Abstract Expressionism

7.7 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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Serge Poliakoff

Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born painter active in Paris, known for nonfigurative compositions of interlocking color p...

Russia France 20TH Century Abstract

7.6 Good

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Alfred Manessier

Alfred Manessier was a French abstract painter whose stained-glass designs and sacred art made him a leading figure of p...

French 20TH Century Abstract Sacred

7.2 Good