Best Gestural

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for gestural works and the controversial Woman I, painted from 1950 to 1952.

Cy Twombly was an American painter, known for calligraphic marks, classical references, and long residence in Italy after settling in Rome in 1957.

Chaim Soutine was a Belarusian-born painter of the School of Paris, born in 1893, known for turbulent Expressionist portraits, landscapes, and carcasses.

Joan Mitchell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, active in New York and France, known for large gestural canvases from the 1950s onward.

Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, known for stark black-and-white gestural canvases such as Chief, first shown in New York in 1950.

Robert Motherwell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, known for intellectual collage and the Elegy to the Spanish Republic series begun in 1948.

Asger Jorn was a Danish painter and CoBrA co-founder in 1948, known for gestural, fantastical figures and later Situationist links.

Hans Hartung was a German-French painter known for gestural abstraction and scratched, dynamic lines, becoming a major Art Informel figure.

Lee Krasner was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for dynamic collage-based works and large canvases such as The Seasons, completed in 1957.

Wols was a German-born painter and photographer in France, noted for small, intense abstractions that helped shape Art Informel after 1945.

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian painter and printmaker linked to CoBrA, known for calligraphic lines and marginal image panels.

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