YOUR TOP 500 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:

-	Pablo Picasso
-	Paul Cezanne
-	Gustav Klimt
-	Claude Monet
-	Marcel Duchamp
-	Henri Matisse
-	Jackson Pollock
-	Andy Warhol
-	Willem De Kooning
-	Piet Mondrian
-	Paul Gauguin
-	Francis Bacon
-	Robert Rauschenberg
-	Georges Braque
-	Wassily Kandinsky
-	Constantin Brancusi
-	Kasimir Malevich
-	Jasper Johns
-	Frida Kahlo
-	Martin Kippenberger
-	Paul Klee
-	Egon Schiele
-	Donald Judd
-	Bruce Nauman
-	Alberto Giacometti
-	Salvador Dalí
-	Auguste Rodin
-	Mark Rothko
-	Edward Hopper
-	Lucian Freud
-	Richard Serra
-	Rene Magritte
-	David Hockney
-	Philip Guston
-	Henri Cartier-Bresson
-	Pierre Bonnard
-	Jean-Michel Basquiat
-	Max Ernst
-	Diane Arbus
-	Georgia O'Keeffe
-	Cy Twombly
-	Max Beckmann
-	Barnett Newman
-	Giorgio De Chirico
-	Roy Lichtenstein
-	Edvard Munch
-	Pierre Auguste Renoir
-	Man Ray
-	Henry Moore
-	Cindy Sherman
-	Jeff Koons
-	Tracey Emin
-	Damien Hirst
-	Yves Klein
-	Henri Rousseau
-	Chaim Soutine
-	Arshile Gorky
-	Amedeo Modigliani
-	Umberto Boccioni
-	Jean Dubuffet
-	Eva Hesse
-	Edouard Vuillard
-	Carl Andre
-	Juan Gris
-	Lucio Fontana
-	Franz Kline
-	David Smith
-	Joseph Beuys
-	Alexander Calder
-	Louise Bourgeois
-	Marc Chagall
-	Gerhard Richter
-	Balthus
-	Joan Miro
-	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
-	Frank Stella
-	Georg Baselitz
-	Francis Picabia
-	Jenny Saville
-	Dan Flavin
-	Alfred Stieglitz
-	Anselm Kiefer
-	Matthew Barney
-	George Grosz
-	Bernd And Hilla Becher
-	Sigmar Polke
-	Brice Marden
-	Maurizio Cattelan
-	Sol LeWitt
-	Chuck Close
-	Edward Weston
-	Joseph Cornell
-	Karel Appel
-	Bridget Riley
-	Alexander Archipenko
-	Anthony Caro
-	Richard Hamilton
-	Clyfford Still
-	Luc Tuymans
-	Claes Oldenburg

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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.

#	Artist list	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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20TH CENTURY

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