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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
131902
002
Gustav Klimt
123339
003
Claude Monet
122327
004
Paul Cézanne
122220
005
Georges Braque
121365
006
Amedeo Modigliani
120636
007
Paul Gauguin
120521
008
Henri Matisse
120516
009
Marcel Duchamp
120407
010
Andy Warhol
120406
011
Jackson Pollock
120375
012
Egon Schiele
120321
013
Wassily Kandinsky
120255
014
Francis Bacon
120247
015
Piet Mondrian
120246
016
Willem De Kooning
120237
017
Auguste Rodin
119836
018
Constantin Brancusi
119683
019
Paul Klee
118839
020
Frida Kahlo
118690
021
Martin Kippenberger
118243
022
Edvard Munch
118130
023
Chaim Soutine
117658
024
Joan Miró
117494
025
Lucian Freud
117454
026
René Magritte
117362
027
Alberto Giacometti
116677
028
Mark Rothko
116616
029
Robert Rauschenberg
116503
030
Henry Moore
116497
031
Max Ernst
111152
032
Joseph Beuys
111110
033
Edward Hopper
111079
034
Cy Twombly
111077
035
Henri Rousseau
111062
036
Richard Serra
111006
037
Kasimir Malevich
110955
038
Arshile Gorky
110906
039
Pierre Bonnard
110869
040
Donald Judd
110862
041
Èdouard Vuillard
110859
042
Cindy Sherman
110816
043
Marlene Dumas
110799
044
Francis Picabia
110788
045
Gerhard Richter
110778
046
Louise Bourgeois
110757
047
Barnett Newman
110720
048
Max Beckmann
110710
049
Jean-Michel Basquiat
110182
050
Bruce Nauman
94237
051
Salvador Dalí
88576
052
Pierre Auguste Renoir
88214
053
Balthus
86676
054
Otto Dix
86661
055
Jasper Johns
86653
056
Yves Klein
86642
057
Fernand Léger
86637
058
Carl Andre
86627
059
Brice Marden
86620
060
Roy Lichtenstein
86605
061
Alexander Calder
86584
062
Georgia O'Keeffe
86582
063
Lucio Fontana
86581
064
Eva Hesse
86577
065
Anselm Kiefer
86574
066
Jean Arp
86564
067
Juan Gris
86556
068
Jeff Koons
86555
069
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
86552
070
Nan Goldin
86550
071
Jean Dubuffet
86549
072
Barbara Hepworth
86545
073
Frank Stella
86544
074
David Smith
86543
075
Aleksandr Rodchenko
86542
076
Robert Smithson
86539
077
Matthew Barney
86538
078
Philip Guston
86538
079
Sol LeWitt
86535
080
Clyfford Still
86528
081
László Moholy-Nagy
85449
082
Man Ray
85257
083
Giorgio Morandi
85243
084
Paul Signac
85242
085
Emil Nolde
85235
086
David Hockney
85232
087
George Grosz
85225
088
Fernando Botero
85224
089
John Marin
85220
090
Franz Marc
85218
091
Odilon Redon
85217
092
Gordon Matta-Clark
85217
093
Jeff Wall
85216
094
Isamu Noguchi
85215
095
Joseph Cornell
85214
096
Claes Oldenburg
85214
097
Sigmar Polke
85214
098
Robert Ryman
85214
099
Bridget Riley
85213
100
Luc Tuymans
85212
101
Richard Hamilton
85208
102
Chuck Close
85207
103
Kurt Schwitters
85207
104
Franz Kline
85206
105
Charles Sheeler
85205
106
Bernd And Hilla Becher
85204
107
Richard Prince
85203
108
Robert Motherwell
85203
109
Ed Ruscha
85202
110
Andre Masson
85201
111
Georg Baselitz
85200
112
Hans Bellmer
85200
113
Richard Diebenkorn
85200
114
Arnulf Rainer
85194
115
Gilbert & George
85192
116
Paula Rego
84937
117
R.B. Kitaj
84906
118
Fischli & Weiss
84901
119
Pierre Soulages
84899
120
Duane Hanson
84897
121
Eric Fischl
84896
122
Paul Delvaux
82296
123
Bill Viola
82255
124
Yves Tanguy
82213
125
Andrè Derain
82172
126
Lissitzky EI
82148
127
Tamara De Lempicka
82056
128
Anish Kapoor
81988
129
Christo And Jeanne Claude
81983
130
Maurice De Vlaminck
81976
131
Barbara Kruger
81949
132
James Ensor
81936
133
Aristide Maillol
81933
134
Ad Reinhardt
81933
135
James Rosenquist
81931
136
Graham Sutherland
81911
137
Jenny Holzer
81903
138
Walter De Maria
81899
139
Nicolas De Staël
81899
140
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
81896
141
Robert Gober
81893
142
Thomas Schütte
81884
143
Gino Severini
81879
144
Wilfredo Lam
81867
145
Stuart Davis
81847
146
Alice Neel
81838
147
Renato Guttuso
81835
148
Victor Brauner
81826
149
Komar And Melamid
81823
150
John Chamberlain
81822
151
Lovis Corinth
81799
152
Marc Chagall
81218
153
Dan Flavin
80644
154
Giorgio De Chirico
80642
155
Oskar Kokoshka
80537
156
Maurice Utrillo
80505
157
Antoni Tàpies
80487
158
Damien Hirst
80473
159
Raoul Dufy
80438
160
Robert Mapplethorpe
80429
161
Georges Rouault
77722
162
Rebecca Horn
77425
163
William Turnbull
63329
164
Thomas Struth
63328
165
Eileen Agar
63327
166
Anna (Grandma) Moses
63321
167
Rob Scholte
62839
168
Paul Mccarthy
62792
169
César
62791
170
Yoko Ono
62774
171
Michelangelo Pistoletto
62767
172
Diego Rivera
62762
173
Max Weber
62751
174
Jannis Kounellis
62747
175
Vladimir Tatlin
62744
176
Piero Manzoni
62739
177
Niki de Saint Phalle
62736
178
Kiki Smith
62735
179
Marcel Broodthaers
62734
180
Joan Mitchell
62734
181
Keith Haring
62733
182
Jean Tinguely
62732
183
Yasumasa Morimura
62732
184
Sonia Delaunay
62732
185
Agnes Martin
62732
186
Karel Appel
62731
187
Saburo Murakami
62731
188
Wayne Thiebaud
62731
189
Pierre Alechinsky
62730
190
Gary Hill
62730
191
Umberto Boccioni
62729
192
Mike Kelley
62728
193
Jack Butler Yeats
62728
194
A.R. Penck
62728
195
Frank Auerbach
62727
196
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
62727
197
Joseph Kosuth
62727
198
Louise Nevelson
62727
199
Lyonel Feininger
62727
200
Hans Hartung
62727
201
Liubov Popova
62727
202
Eric Gill
62727
203
Hermann Nitsch
62727
204
Jiro Yoshihara
62727
205
Eduardo Chillida
62726
206
Ben Vautier
62726
207
Robert Delaunay
62726
208
Anthony Gormley
62726
209
Ellsworth Kelly
62726
210
Malcolm Morley
62725
211
Robert Indiana
62725
212
L.S. Lowry
62725
213
Christian Schad
62724
214
James Turrell
62724
215
Pol Bury
62724
216
Giuseppe Penone
62724
217
Larry Clark
62724
218
Leon Golub
62723
219
Larry Rivers
62723
220
On Kawara
62723
221
Léon Bakst
62723
222
Patrick Caulfield
62722
223
Judy Chicago
62722
224
Hélio Oiticica
62722
225
Mimmo Rotella
62722
226
Richard Artschwager
62721
227
John Baldessari
62721
228
Tony Cragg
62721
229
Douglas Gordon
62721
230
Rosemarie Trockel
62721
231
Arthur Dove
62721
232
Erich Heckel
62720
233
William Wegman
62720
234
Robert Mangold
62720
235
Mark Tobey
62720
236
George Wesley Bellows
62720
237
Arthur Boyd
62720
238
Lee Krasner
62720
239
Léon Spilliaert
62720
240
Anthony Caro
62719
241
Jimmie Durham
62719
242
Walter Sickert
62718
243
Max Bill
62718
244
Alfred Kubin
62718
245
Julião Sarmento
62718
246
Dorothea Tanning
62718
247
Meret Oppenheim
62718
248
Sam Francis
62718
249
Kenneth Noland
62717
250
Pierre Roy
62717
251
Öyvind Fahlström
62717
252
Luciano Fabro
62717
253
Katharina Fritsch
62716
254
Patrick Heron
62716
255
Leon Kossoff
62716
256
Gilberto Zorio
62716
257
David Hammons
62716
258
Richard Wilson
62715
259
Thomas Hart Benton
62715
260
Julio González
62714
261
Le Corbusier
61492
262
Rabindranath Tagore
61468
263
Charles Ray
61411
264
George Segal
61403
265
Juan Muñoz
61402
266
Chris Burden
61401
267
Max Liebermann
61400
268
Giacomo Balla
61398
269
Franceso Clemente
61398
270
Jörg Immendorff
61397
271
Roberto Matta
61397
272
Rachel Whiteread
61397
273
Alexander Archipenko
61397
274
David Salle
61396
275
Wols
61396
276
Marino Marini
61396
277
Per Kirkeby
61396
278
Stanley Spencer
61395
279
David Alfaro Siqueiros
61394
280
Elisabeth Frink
61394
281
Helen Frankenthaler
61394
282
Robert Morris
61393
283
Miroslaw Balka
61393
284
Sidney Nolan
61393
285
Hans Hofmann
61393
286
Daniel Buren
61392
287
Rufino Tamayo
61392
288
Oskar Schlemmer
61391
289
Hans Haacke
61391
290
Naum Gabo
61391
291
Cady Noland
61390
292
Jacob Lawrence
61390
293
Charles Demuth
61389
294
Marsden Hartley
61389
295
Ed and Nancy Kienholz
61389
296
Morris Louis
61389
297
Alberto Burri
61388
298
Serge Poliakoff
61388
299
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
61388
300
Jean-Marc Bustamante
61387
301
Beverly Pepper
61387
302
Milton Avery
61386
303
Albert Gliezes
61386
304
Vito Acconci
61325
305
Gina Pane
61131
306
Wolfgang Laib
61115
307
Daniel Spoerri
61101
308
Maria-Elena Vieira da Silba
61067
309
Susan Rothenberg
61064
310
Alighiero E Boetti
61063
311
Jiří Kolář
61058
312
August Macke
61046
313
Howard Hodgkin
61040
314
Ulay & Abramovic
61040
315
Henri Michaux
61039
316
Richard Tuttle
61024
317
Bryan Organ
61021
318
Jacques Lipchitz
61019
319
Pavel Tchelitchew
61007
320
Allen Jones
61006
321
Germaine Richier
61004
322
Victor Vasarely
58866
323
Paul Nash
58810
324
Annette Messager
58802
325
John Heartfield
58774
326
Jean Hélion
58760
327
Vong Phaophanit
58759
328
Antonin Artaud
58742
329
Carlo Carrà
58736
330
Elie Nadelman
58734
331
Asger Jorn
51203
332
Adrian Piper
50952
333
Lawrence Weiner
50929
334
Kazuo Shiraga
50894
335
Richard Deacon
50893
336
Jana Sterbak
50891
337
Susan Hiller
50890
338
Jean-Paul Riopelle
50887
339
Dan Graham
50878
340
Andy Goldsworthy
50873
341
Käthe Kollwitz
50873
342
Natalia Goncharova
50871
343
Nam June Paik
50868
344
Miriam Schapiro
50866
345
Richard Long
50865
346
Alexei Von Jawlensky
50865
347
Jose Clemente Orozco
50865
348
Reinhard Mucha
50865
349
John Piper
50865
350
Christian Boltanski
50865
351
Jacob Epstein
50865
352
Vera Mukhina
50865
353
Adolph Gottlieb
50864
354
Marie Laurencin
50864
355
Krzysztof Wodiczko
50864
356
Mikhail Larionov
50864
357
Theo Van Doesburg
50864
358
Frantisek Kupka
50864
359
Marisol
50863
360
Arman
50863
361
Ilya Kabakov
50863
362
Tina Modotti
50862
363
Art & Language
50862
364
Marc Quinn
50862
365
Jean Metzinger
50862
366
Cildo Meireles
50862
367
Ben Nicholson
50862
368
Remedios Varo
50862
369
Leonora Carrington
50862
370
Antoine Bourdelle
50861
371
Julian Schnabel
50861
372
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
50861
373
Huang Yong Ping
50861
374
Giacumo Manzù
50861
375
Carolee Schneemann
50861
376
Sean Scully
50861
377
Victor Burgin
50861
378
Joseph Stella
50861
379
Juan Davila
50861
380
Zvi Goldstein
50861
381
Paula Modersohn-Becker
50861
382
Katsura Funakoshi
50860
383
Ana Mendieta
50860
384
Josef Albers
50860
385
Tatsuo Miyajima
50860
386
Maurice Prendergast
50860
387
Oscar Dominguez
50860
388
Nicole Eisenman
50860
389
Ben Shahn
50860
390
Fiona Rae
50860
391
Jessica Stockholder
50860
392
Willi Baumeister
50860
393
Adolf Wölfli
50860
394
Jennifer Bartlett
50860
395
Franz West
50859
396
Ivon Hitchens
50859
397
Jan Dibbets
50859
398
Henri Laurens
50859
399
Percy Wyndham Lewis
50859
400
Mario Merz
50859
401
Lynda Benglis
50859
402
Renée Green
50859
403
Victor Grippo
50859
404
Mary Kelly
50859
405
Joan Brossa
50859
406
Otto Freundlich
50859
407
Auguste Herbin
50859
408
Peter Halley
50859
409
Jean Fautrier
50859
410
Eduardo Paolozzi
50859
411
Helen Chadwick
50858
412
Mary Heilman
50858
413
Hannah Wilke
50858
414
Maurice Denis
50858
415
David Bomberg
50858
416
Willie Birch
50858
417
Kees Van Dongen
50858
418
Günter Förg
50858
419
Avital Geva
50858
420
Ernst Barlach
50858
421
Pablo Gargallo
50858
422
Gwen John
50858
423
Julian Opie
50858
424
Jim Dine
50858
425
Stanley William Hayter
50858
426
César Domela
50857
427
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
50857
428
Maria Nordman
50857
429
Nancy Spero
50857
430
Sam Nhlengethwa
50857
431
Edward Burra
50857
432
Massimo Campigli
50857
433
Hannah Collins
50857
434
Hélène Schjerfbeck
50857
435
Franciszka Themerson
50857
436
Mark Tansey
50856
437
Zarina Bhimji
50856
438
Amedee Ozenfant
50856
439
Carel Weight
50856
440
Milan Knizak
50856
441
Victor Pasmore
50856
442
Willie Doherty
50856