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TOP 200 ARTISTS
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AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
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Pablo Picasso
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Paul Cezanne
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Gustav Klimt
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Claude Monet
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Marcel Duchamp
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Henri Matisse
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Jackson Pollock
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Andy Warhol
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Willem De Kooning
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Piet Mondrian
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Paul Gauguin
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Francis Bacon
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Georges Braque
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Constantin Brancusi
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Kasimir Malevich
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Jasper Johns
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Frida Kahlo
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Martin Kippenberger
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Paul Klee
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Egon Schiele
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Donald Judd
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Bruce Nauman
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Alberto Giacometti
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Salvador Dalí
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Auguste Rodin
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Mark Rothko
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Edward Hopper
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Lucian Freud
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Richard Serra
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Rene Magritte
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David Hockney
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Philip Guston
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Pierre Bonnard
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Max Ernst
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Diane Arbus
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Cy Twombly
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Max Beckmann
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Barnett Newman
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Giorgio De Chirico
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Edvard Munch
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Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Man Ray
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Henry Moore
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Cindy Sherman
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Jeff Koons
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Tracey Emin
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Damien Hirst
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Yves Klein
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Henri Rousseau
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Chaim Soutine
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Arshile Gorky
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Umberto Boccioni
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Jean Dubuffet
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Eva Hesse
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Edouard Vuillard
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Carl Andre
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Juan Gris
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Lucio Fontana
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Franz Kline
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David Smith
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Joseph Beuys
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Alexander Calder
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Louise Bourgeois
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Marc Chagall
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Gerhard Richter
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Balthus
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Joan Miro
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Frank Stella
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Georg Baselitz
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Francis Picabia
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Jenny Saville
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Dan Flavin
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Alfred Stieglitz
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Anselm Kiefer
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Matthew Barney
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George Grosz
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Bernd And Hilla Becher
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Sigmar Polke
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Brice Marden
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Maurizio Cattelan
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Sol LeWitt
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Chuck Close
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Edward Weston
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Joseph Cornell
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Karel Appel
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Bridget Riley
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Alexander Archipenko
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Anthony Caro
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Richard Hamilton
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Clyfford Still
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Luc Tuymans
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Claes Oldenburg
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YOUR TOP 500 ARTISTS OF THE
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Click on an artist name to vote from the Phaidon Top 500 Artists of the 20th Century. You may vote on as many artists as you wish, but one vote only per artist.
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Votes
Click to vote
001
Pablo Picasso
133726
002
Gustav Klimt
124120
003
Claude Monet
123155
004
Paul Cézanne
122651
005
Georges Braque
122020
006
Amedeo Modigliani
120973
007
Paul Gauguin
120901
008
Henri Matisse
120780
009
Andy Warhol
120638
010
Marcel Duchamp
120615
011
Jackson Pollock
120550
012
Egon Schiele
120478
013
Wassily Kandinsky
120456
014
Auguste Rodin
120422
015
Willem De Kooning
120403
016
Francis Bacon
120403
017
Piet Mondrian
120402
018
Constantin Brancusi
119683
019
Paul Klee
119297
020
Frida Kahlo
119101
021
Martin Kippenberger
118319
022
Edvard Munch
118289
023
Chaim Soutine
117739
024
Joan Miró
117691
025
Lucian Freud
117553
026
René Magritte
117549
027
Alberto Giacometti
116774
028
Mark Rothko
116664
029
Henry Moore
116580
030
Robert Rauschenberg
116545
031
Max Ernst
111224
032
Joseph Beuys
111149
033
Henri Rousseau
111130
034
Edward Hopper
111110
035
Cy Twombly
111107
036
Richard Serra
111039
037
Kasimir Malevich
110993
038
Arshile Gorky
110940
039
Pierre Bonnard
110917
040
Èdouard Vuillard
110888
041
Donald Judd
110887
042
Cindy Sherman
110843
043
Marlene Dumas
110831
044
Francis Picabia
110810
045
Gerhard Richter
110805
046
Louise Bourgeois
110788
047
Barnett Newman
110748
048
Max Beckmann
110734
049
Jean-Michel Basquiat
110207
050
Bruce Nauman
94258
051
Salvador Dalí
89589
052
Pierre Auguste Renoir
88493
053
Otto Dix
86709
054
Balthus
86697
055
Jasper Johns
86668
056
Yves Klein
86667
057
Fernand Léger
86656
058
Carl Andre
86642
059
Roy Lichtenstein
86634
060
Brice Marden
86634
061
Georgia O'Keeffe
86617
062
Alexander Calder
86610
063
Eva Hesse
86608
064
Lucio Fontana
86597
065
Jean Arp
86585
066
Anselm Kiefer
86585
067
Jeff Koons
86574
068
Juan Gris
86570
069
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
86568
070
Jean Dubuffet
86566
071
Nan Goldin
86564
072
Aleksandr Rodchenko
86563
073
David Smith
86563
074
Barbara Hepworth
86561
075
Frank Stella
86558
076
Matthew Barney
86553
077
Robert Smithson
86553
078
Philip Guston
86548
079
Sol LeWitt
86547
080
Clyfford Still
86541
081
László Moholy-Nagy
86069
082
Man Ray
85295
083
Paul Signac
85277
084
Giorgio Morandi
85265
085
Fernando Botero
85256
086
Emil Nolde
85254
087
David Hockney
85248
088
George Grosz
85246
089
John Marin
85238
090
Franz Marc
85236
091
Gordon Matta-Clark
85232
092
Odilon Redon
85231
093
Joseph Cornell
85230
094
Isamu Noguchi
85229
095
Luc Tuymans
85228
096
Richard Hamilton
85228
097
Sigmar Polke
85227
098
Bridget Riley
85226
099
Claes Oldenburg
85226
100
Jeff Wall
85226
101
Robert Ryman
85225
102
Franz Kline
85220
103
Kurt Schwitters
85220
104
Chuck Close
85219
105
Charles Sheeler
85216
106
Richard Prince
85215
107
Andre Masson
85214
108
Bernd And Hilla Becher
85213
109
Hans Bellmer
85213
110
Richard Diebenkorn
85213
111
Ed Ruscha
85211
112
Georg Baselitz
85211
113
Robert Motherwell
85211
114
Gilbert & George
85203
115
Arnulf Rainer
85201
116
Paula Rego
84951
117
R.B. Kitaj
84914
118
Eric Fischl
84910
119
Fischli & Weiss
84908
120
Pierre Soulages
84908
121
Duane Hanson
84907
122
Paul Delvaux
82307
123
Bill Viola
82270
124
Yves Tanguy
82228
125
Andrè Derain
82182
126
Lissitzky EI
82156
127
Tamara De Lempicka
82085
128
Victor Brauner
82011
129
Anish Kapoor
81998
130
Christo And Jeanne Claude
81994
131
Maurice De Vlaminck
81990
132
Barbara Kruger
81962
133
James Ensor
81950
134
Ad Reinhardt
81946
135
Aristide Maillol
81944
136
James Rosenquist
81937
137
Graham Sutherland
81918
138
Jenny Holzer
81912
139
Nicolas De Staël
81911
140
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
81908
141
Walter De Maria
81907
142
Robert Gober
81900
143
Thomas Schütte
81893
144
Gino Severini
81889
145
Wilfredo Lam
81875
146
Stuart Davis
81853
147
Alice Neel
81847
148
Renato Guttuso
81845
149
John Chamberlain
81833
150
Komar And Melamid
81832
151
Lovis Corinth
81806
152
Marc Chagall
81321
153
Dan Flavin
80682
154
Giorgio De Chirico
80677
155
Oskar Kokoshka
80554
156
Maurice Utrillo
80527
157
Antoni Tàpies
80495
158
Damien Hirst
80480
159
Raoul Dufy
80449
160
Robert Mapplethorpe
80435
161
Georges Rouault
77732
162
Rebecca Horn
77434
163
Eileen Agar
63335
164
William Turnbull
63335
165
Thomas Struth
63332
166
Anna (Grandma) Moses
63328
167
Rob Scholte
62865
168
Paul Mccarthy
62820
169
César
62817
170
Yoko Ono
62809
171
Michelangelo Pistoletto
62794
172
Diego Rivera
62777
173
Max Weber
62762
174
Jannis Kounellis
62756
175
Vladimir Tatlin
62754
176
Yasumasa Morimura
62747
177
Piero Manzoni
62745
178
Sonia Delaunay
62745
179
Saburo Murakami
62744
180
Marcel Broodthaers
62743
181
Niki de Saint Phalle
62741
182
Jean Tinguely
62741
183
Kiki Smith
62741
184
Keith Haring
62740
185
Joan Mitchell
62740
186
Larry Clark
62739
187
Joseph Kosuth
62737
188
Umberto Boccioni
62737
189
Karel Appel
62736
190
Gary Hill
62736
191
Agnes Martin
62736
192
Hans Hartung
62735
193
Pierre Alechinsky
62735
194
Wayne Thiebaud
62735
195
Liubov Popova
62734
196
Eric Gill
62734
197
Robert Delaunay
62734
198
A.R. Penck
62733
199
Eduardo Chillida
62732
200
Mike Kelley
62732
201
Louise Nevelson
62732
202
Jack Butler Yeats
62732
203
Lyonel Feininger
62732
204
Robert Indiana
62732
205
Jiro Yoshihara
62732
206
Frank Auerbach
62731
207
Ben Vautier
62731
208
Pol Bury
62731
209
Hermann Nitsch
62731
210
Giuseppe Penone
62731
211
Anthony Gormley
62731
212
Christian Schad
62730
213
On Kawara
62730
214
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
62729
215
Douglas Gordon
62729
216
Leon Golub
62729
217
Malcolm Morley
62728
218
L.S. Lowry
62728
219
Léon Bakst
62728
220
Ellsworth Kelly
62728
221
Larry Rivers
62727
222
James Turrell
62726
223
Mimmo Rotella
62726
224
Richard Artschwager
62725
225
John Baldessari
62725
226
Tony Cragg
62725
227
Erich Heckel
62725
228
Rosemarie Trockel
62725
229
Judy Chicago
62725
230
Patrick Heron
62725
231
Hélio Oiticica
62725
232
Alfred Kubin
62724
233
Dorothea Tanning
62724
234
Patrick Caulfield
62724
235
Arthur Dove
62724
236
Max Bill
62723
237
Robert Mangold
62723
238
George Wesley Bellows
62723
239
Jimmie Durham
62723
240
Léon Spilliaert
62723
241
Walter Sickert
62722
242
William Wegman
62722
243
Anthony Caro
62722
244
Öyvind Fahlström
62722
245
Sam Francis
62722
246
Mark Tobey
62722
247
Arthur Boyd
62722
248
Lee Krasner
62722
249
Katharina Fritsch
62721
250
Luciano Fabro
62721
251
Pierre Roy
62720
252
Julião Sarmento
62720
253
Meret Oppenheim
62720
254
David Hammons
62720
255
Kenneth Noland
62719
256
Leon Kossoff
62719
257
Gilberto Zorio
62719
258
Richard Wilson
62718
259
Thomas Hart Benton
62718
260
Julio González
62717
261
Le Corbusier
61538
262
Rabindranath Tagore
61507
263
Charles Ray
61424
264
George Segal
61414
265
Juan Muñoz
61406
266
Chris Burden
61405
267
Max Liebermann
61404
268
Giacomo Balla
61403
269
Franceso Clemente
61403
270
Jörg Immendorff
61402
271
David Alfaro Siqueiros
61401
272
Roberto Matta
61401
273
Alexander Archipenko
61401
274
Daniel Buren
61400
275
Rachel Whiteread
61400
276
Marino Marini
61400
277
Per Kirkeby
61399
278
David Salle
61398
279
Stanley Spencer
61398
280
Elisabeth Frink
61398
281
Wols
61398
282
Rufino Tamayo
61398
283
Miroslaw Balka
61397
284
Robert Morris
61396
285
Oskar Schlemmer
61396
286
Hans Haacke
61396
287
Sidney Nolan
61396
288
Helen Frankenthaler
61396
289
Hans Hofmann
61395
290
Alberto Burri
61394
291
Cady Noland
61394
292
Naum Gabo
61394
293
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
61393
294
Jacob Lawrence
61393
295
Morris Louis
61392
296
Serge Poliakoff
61392
297
Charles Demuth
61391
298
Marsden Hartley
61391
299
Ed and Nancy Kienholz
61391
300
Jean-Marc Bustamante
61391
301
Beverly Pepper
61390
302
Milton Avery
61389
303
Albert Gliezes
61389
304
Vito Acconci
61329
305
Gina Pane
61137
306
Wolfgang Laib
61117
307
Daniel Spoerri
61107
308
Maria-Elena Vieira da Silba
61077
309
Susan Rothenberg
61067
310
Alighiero E Boetti
61066
311
Jiří Kolář
61064
312
August Macke
61053
313
Ulay & Abramovic
61046
314
Henri Michaux
61046
315
Howard Hodgkin
61042
316
Richard Tuttle
61027
317
Jacques Lipchitz
61024
318
Bryan Organ
61024
319
Pavel Tchelitchew
61011
320
Allen Jones
61011
321
Germaine Richier
61008
322
Victor Vasarely
58904
323
Paul Nash
58818
324
Annette Messager
58804
325
John Heartfield
58776
326
Jean Hélion
58763
327
Vong Phaophanit
58761
328
Antonin Artaud
58751
329
Carlo Carrà
58741
330
Elie Nadelman
58738
331
Asger Jorn
51205
332
Adrian Piper
50996
333
Lawrence Weiner
50931
334
Kazuo Shiraga
50898
335
Jana Sterbak
50896
336
Richard Deacon
50895
337
Jean-Paul Riopelle
50893
338
Susan Hiller
50893
339
Dan Graham
50882
340
Käthe Kollwitz
50880
341
Natalia Goncharova
50879
342
Andy Goldsworthy
50878
343
Nam June Paik
50874
344
Reinhard Mucha
50874
345
Theo Van Doesburg
50872
346
Miriam Schapiro
50871
347
Juan Davila
50870
348
Jacob Epstein
50870
349
Vera Mukhina
50870
350
Katsura Funakoshi
50869
351
Alexei Von Jawlensky
50869
352
Arman
50869
353
Christian Boltanski
50869
354
Frantisek Kupka
50869
355
Victor Burgin
50869
356
Adolph Gottlieb
50868
357
Richard Long
50868
358
Tatsuo Miyajima
50868
359
Jose Clemente Orozco
50868
360
Mikhail Larionov
50868
361
John Piper
50868
362
Cildo Meireles
50868
363
Remedios Varo
50868
364
Zvi Goldstein
50868
365
Ana Mendieta
50867
366
Marisol
50867
367
Huang Yong Ping
50867
368
Krzysztof Wodiczko
50867
369
Ilya Kabakov
50867
370
Paula Modersohn-Becker
50867
371
Antoine Bourdelle
50866
372
Marie Laurencin
50866
373
Giacumo Manzù
50866
374
Oscar Dominguez
50866
375
Marc Quinn
50866
376
Jean Metzinger
50866
377
Ben Nicholson
50866
378
Julian Schnabel
50865
379
Josef Albers
50865
380
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
50865
381
Art & Language
50865
382
Nicole Eisenman
50865
383
Carolee Schneemann
50865
384
Peter Halley
50865
385
Leonora Carrington
50865
386
Maurice Prendergast
50864
387
Lynda Benglis
50864
388
Tina Modotti
50864
389
Fiona Rae
50864
390
Jessica Stockholder
50864
391
Willi Baumeister
50864
392
Adolf Wölfli
50864
393
Stanley William Hayter
50864
394
Eduardo Paolozzi
50864
395
Jan Dibbets
50863
396
Kees Van Dongen
50863
397
Ben Shahn
50863
398
Otto Freundlich
50863
399
Hannah Collins
50863
400
Sean Scully
50863
401
Ernst Barlach
50863
402
Joseph Stella
50863
403
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
50862
404
Henri Laurens
50862
405
Maria Nordman
50862
406
Renée Green
50862
407
Victor Grippo
50862
408
Victor Pasmore
50862
409
Mary Kelly
50862
410
Pablo Gargallo
50862
411
Jennifer Bartlett
50862
412
Franciszka Themerson
50862
413
Helen Chadwick
50861
414
César Domela
50861
415
Franz West
50861
416
Mary Heilman
50861
417
Ivon Hitchens
50861
418
Maurice Denis
50861
419
Percy Wyndham Lewis
50861
420
Mario Merz
50861
421
David Bomberg
50861
422
Edward Burra
50861
423
Massimo Campigli
50861
424
Willie Doherty
50861
425
Kay Sage
50861
426
Kurt Seligmann
50861
427
Joan Brossa
50861
428
Auguste Herbin
50861
429
Avital Geva
50861
430
Chéri Samba
50861
431
Gwen John
50861
432
Julian Opie
50861
433
Jim Dine
50861
434
Jean Fautrier
50861
435
Mark Tansey
50860
436
Hannah Wilke
50860
437
Grant Wood
50860
438
Zarina Bhimji
50860
439
Nancy Spero
50860
440
Milan Knizak
50860
441
Matt Mullican
50860
442
Willie Birch
50860
443
Günter Förg
50860
444
Hélène Schjerfbeck
50860
445
Amedee Ozenfant
50859
446
Carel Weight
50859
447
Sam Nhlengethwa
50859
448
Judith Barry
50859
449
Bas Jan Ader
50859
450
Lothar Baumgarten
50859
451
Raoul Hausmann
50858
452
Ashley Bickerton
50858
453
Jules Olitski
50858
454
Eugenio Dittborn
50857
455
Pepe Espaliú
50857
456
Philip Evergood
50857
457
Mark Dion
50857
458
Richard Estes
50857
459
Colin McCahon
50856
460
Edward Wadsworth
50856
461
Antonio López García
49565
462
Sophie Calle
49561
463
Christina Iglesias
49556
464
Robert Longo
49543
465
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
49542
466
Haim Steinbach
49542
467
Tsugouharu Foujita
49541
468
Hanne Darboven
49541
469
Max Pechstein
49539
470
Mark Wallinger
49536
471
Rirkrit Tiravanija
49533
472
Mona Hatoum
48053
473
Tim Rollins & K.O.S.
48053
474
John William Waterhouse
48053
475
Peter Blake
48053
476
Peter Howson
48052
477
Barry Flanagan
48052
478
Sonia Boyce
48052
479
Allan Mccollum
48052
480
Bill Woodrow
48052
481
Craigie Aitchison
48052
482
Ross Bleckner
48052
483
Steven Campbell
48052
484
Alberto Gironella
48052
485
Tadeusz Kantor
48052
486
Ian Hamilton-Finlay
48052
487
Gillian Wearing
48052
488
Gabriel Orozco
48052
489
Ralph Hotere
48052
490
Jonathan Lasker
48052
491
Andrew Wyeth
48052
492
Gillian Ayres
48052
493
Franz Radziwill
48052
494
Imants Tillers
48052
495
Alfred Wallis
48052
496
Avigdor Arikha
48052
497
Family Boyle
48052
498
Stuart Brisley
48052
499
Claude Cahun
48052
500
Jonathan Borofsky
48052
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