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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet was a French painter who coined Art Brut in 1945, valuing raw visual invention outside academic and museum...

French 20TH Century Raw Art Brut

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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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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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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Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov was a Soviet-born conceptual artist and painter, known for installation works such as The Man Who Flew Into...

Russian Contemporary Conceptual 20TH Century

8.4 Great

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Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger was a French painter, notable for Cubist and machine age forms, bold tubular figures, and works such as Th...

French 20TH Century Cubism Figurative

8.3 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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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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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