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Discover a Curated Collection of Abstract Artworks by Historic Italian and International Artists"

Rene' Acht

Basilea, Svizzera, 1920 - Herbolzheim, Germania, 1998
René Acht acquista notorietà grazie alle sue opere informali ed è presente a Documenta II e alla 5ª Biennale di San Paolo nel 1959. All'inizio deg...

Paul Ackerman

Iași, Romania, 1908 - Parigi, 1981
As he himself said: "I am first of all a painter of the unconscious. I seek everything that can free it. I also happen to paint my dreams"

Giancarlo Bargoni

Genova, 1936
Between 1954 and 1958 he attended the Liceo Artistico Barabino in Genoa. At the end of his studies he exhibited for the first time in his city (togeth...

Claude Bellegarde

Parigi, 1927 - 2019
His initial painting can be placed in the context of Lyrical Abstraction, passing to Tachisme to the "Culeurs heurtées". Lucio Fontana is the first It...

Vittorio Bellini

Vertova, Bergamo, 1936 - Bergamo, 2009
After his studies at Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, he takes part in painting contests, getting early accolades (in 1974 Bellini win one of the most pr...

Vautier Ben

Napoli, 1935
Friend of Yves Klein, of Daniel Spoerri, of Arman, of Boltanski, Le Cle'zio, Buren, he participated in the activity of the international movement...

Solange Bertrand

Montigny-lès-Metz, Francia, 1913 - 2011
Nel 1948, Solange Bertrand conosce Henri Matisse che la giudica artista di talento e le dona preziosi consigli. Ciò la rende molto severa ed autocriti...

Marcel Burtin

Gafsa, Tunisia, 1902 - Boulogne-Billancourt, Francia, 1979
In 1956 he exhibited with Picasso and Fernand Leger in Mexico. Burtin has been exhibiting at the Salon de Mai since its foundation in 1958.The artist...

Pietro Consagra

Mazara del Vallo, Trapani, 1920 - Milano, 2005
Consagra is one of the founders of the "Forma" group that, in line with advanced European research and against the postulates of realism, affirms the...

Franco Costalonga

Venezia, 1933 - 2019
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Roberto Crippa

Monza, 1921 - Bresso, Milano 1972
Crippa’s work at the beginning of the fifties was centered around a series of paintings called Spirals, of geometric and abstract character: with the...

Sergio Dangelo

Milano, 1932 - 2022
Since 1951, with Enrico Baj, he has been the animator of the "Movement of Nuclear Art", an antirealist group among the European avant-garde; the San F...

Alan Davie

Grangemouth, Scozia, 1920 - 2014
In 1956-57 he won the Guggenheim Prize and from 1958 he began to participate in the Venice Biennale.Among the galleries that deal with his work and th...

Sergio De Castro

Buenos Aires, 1922 - Parigi, 2012
Sergio De Castro studies architecture and music. Critics have divided his painting career into four periods: the period of training in Paris, from 195...

Fernando De Filippi

Lecce, 1940
È stato il direttore dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera dal 1991 al 2009 e dell’Accademia di Belle Arti Gian Bettino Cignaroli di Verona dal 2009 a...

Natalia Dumitresco

Bucarest, 1915 - Parigi, 1997
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1939, the same year she marries the painter Alexandre Istrati. In 1955 she wins the Kandinsky...

Jacques Duthoo

Tours, 1910 - Parigi, 1960
After several evolutionary stages Duthoo is now master of his style. After working on the juxtaposition of colored spots, it now returns to a closed a...

Jorge Eduardo Eielson

Lima, 1924 - Milano, 2006
Jorge Eduardo Eielson embodied the mother culture of pre-Columbian Peru, the fusion of the Andean and Amazonian worlds: the Inca civilization, rich in...

Luis Feito

Madrid, Spagna 1929-2021
Louis Feito was a Spanish painter. In 1957 he co-founded with M. Millares, R. Canogar and A. Saura the El Paso group, expressing, in their abstract la...

Edoardo Franceschini

Catania, 1928 - Varese, 2006
La sua pittura è caratterizzata dall'intersezione di linee che evocano paesaggi irreali e magici, visti attraverso l'intuizione di elementi no...

Jacques Germain

Parigi, 1915 - 2001
Germain's painting is part of the broad movement of lyrical abstraction that developed in the postwar period. From the very beginning of his caree...

Albert Gleizes

Parigi, 1881 - Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Francia, 1953
Dopo la scuola secondaria, lavora nello studio di disegno tecnico del padre. Conserverà il rigore di questa esperienza in tutta la sua opera futura e...

Henri Goetz

New York, 1909 – Nizza, Francia, 1989
His painting, tending to abstraction as early as about 1937, retains fantastic and dreamlike traces until after the Second World War, only to finally...

Emile Hecq

1924 - 2009
Hecq's career began in the 1940s, a period in which he took his first steps in the art world by attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Mons. After...

Emile Lahner

Velykyi Bereznyi, Ucraina, 1893 - Parigi, 1980
Emile Lahner was a Hungarian painter. He exhibited in Paris, New York, Boston; he participated in the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon des Tuileries...

Siegfried Laske

Perù, 1931 - 2012
Laske stands out for his mastery of the craquelure technique, a specific process of canvas preparation. However, his body of work is much broader. Acc...

Julio Le Parc

Mendoza, Argentina, 1928
"The Long March" of 1974 is a significant event in Julio Le Parc's career. This artistic march, named after the famous political Long March that t...

Galliano Mazzon

Camisano Vicentino, Vicenza, 1896 - Milano, 1978
In 1930 he began to create his first abstract works together with Edoardo Persico, Gino Ghiringhelli, Maria Cernuschi and other artists. In this perio...

Jean Messagier

Parigi, 1920 - Montbeliard, Francia, 1999
Beginning in 1964, Messagier's canvases are characterized by large circles, formed by wide strips of fluid color then dried, and by circles knotte...

Georges Noël

Béziers (Francia) 1924 - Parigi, 2010
Georges Noël's plastic language draws from Informal Art, from which he borrows different forms of expression such as gesture, sign and matter. The...

Gianfranco Notargiacomo

Roma, 1945
Si laurea in Filosofia (Estetica), alla Sapienza di Roma per studiare le ragioni profonde della pittura. Subito dopo si diploma all’Istituto d’Arte. L...

Achille Pace

Termoli, 1923 - Roma, 2021
Achille Pace è stato un importante artista italiano, astrattista, che ha introdotto la poetica del filo nelle sue opere d'arte.Nel 1935 la sua fam...

Cesare Peverelli

Milano, 1922 - Parigi, 2000
Formatosi ai corsi di Funi all'Accademia di Brera, vince il premio Junker nel 1941 ed espone una serie di nature morte alla Galleria del Milione....

Jean Piaubert

Feydieu, Le Plan, Francia, 1900 - 2002
During the second half of the 1930s, he gradually approached abstraction, animating the surface of the canvas with the exaltation of forms, in a break...

Edouard Pignon

Bully (Francia) 1905 - Parigi, 1993
In 1984 at the Picasso Museum in Antibes he exhibits all the works of the series dedicated to the great master and friend, entitled "Le rendez-Vous d’...

Edgard Pillet

Saint-Christoly-Médoc (Gironde), Francia, 1912 - Parigi, 1996
Riceve la prima formazione artistica all’Ecole des Beaux-Arts di Bordeaux, dove, dal 1927 al 1930, frequenta i corsi di scultura.Nel 1931 si trasferis...

Jorge Piqueras

Lima, Perù, 1925 - Parigi, 2020
At the XXX International Biennial Exhibition of Venice in 1960, Piqueras exhibits nine works representing his surprising figurative world in the Peru...

Fabrizio Plessi

Reggio Emilia, 1940
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Giorgio Ramella

Torino, 1939
Compiuti gli studi classici, frequenta l’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino dove segue il corso di pittura di Enrico Paulucci e di tecniche i...

Emilio Rodriguez-Larrain

Lima, 1928 - Distretto di Chorillos, 2015
Between the years 1959-60 in Rodriguez-Larrain's works the evocative signs and symbols of ancient Peruvian art emerge from memory; the painter dis...

Georges Romathier

Lyon, 1927 - Boscamnant, Francia, 2017
Dopo gli studi secondari nella città natale lavora isolato fino al 1952 quando arriva a Parigi e comincia a partecipare alle attività dell’Atelier du...

Vincenzo Satta

Nuoro, 1937
Vive e lavora a Bologna. Dal 1966, anno della prima mostra personale a Bologna con presentazione di Andrea Emiliani, ha tenuto mostre personali e coll...

Gérard Schneider

Sainte-Croix, Svizzera, 1896 - Parigi, 1986
A painter belonging to the Ecole de Paris, in the post-war period Schneider played an important role, alongside Hartung and Soulages, in the research...

Guido Strazza

Santa Fiora, Grosseto, 1922
In 2006 the Museo Civico Umberto Mastroianni in Marino (Rome) dedicated to him an anthological exhibition including a small number of works, executed...

Douglas Swan

Connecticut (USA), 1930 - Bonn (Germania), 2000
In 1958 he won a British Council scholarship that enabled him to take a study trip to Italy.While in Milan, the artist came into contact with the vibr...

Joan-Josep Tharrats

Girona, Spagna, 1918 - Barcellona, 2001
Il suo dipinto dal titolo Nuovo omaggio a Velàsquez, esposto alla Esposizione Mondiale di New York nel 1965, entra nella collezione del Guggenheim Mus...

Marie Christine Treinen

Parigi, 1930 - 2003
All’età di circa vent’anni si trasferisce in Italia, a Milano dove frequenta gli artisti Spazialisti facenti parte del gruppo fondato da Fontana nel 1...

Giulio Turcato

Mantova, 1912 - Roma, 1995
Giulio Turcato was able to impose his own inimitable language to the 20th century, making form-color the reason of an inexhaustible search, of an expe...

Renato Volpini

Napoli, 1934 - Milano, 2017
La nascita napoletana è solo anagrafica in quanto si trasferisce presto ad Urbino dove, nel 1957 si diploma presso il Magistero Artistico. La formazio...

Bryan Wynter

Londra, 1915-1975
Bryan Wynter was one of the St. Ives group of British painters. He was apparently the face of a new generation that would develop Surrealism into some...

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Accatino Enrico
Acht Rene'
Ackerman Paul
Aimone Nino
Albers Josef
Alesi' Giuseppe
Alviani Getulio
Anselmi Anselmo
Appel Karel
Arduini Sante
Arnal Francois
Asdrubali Gianni
Asse Genevieve
Aubertin Bernard
Aulestia Varquez Salvador
Avenali Marcello

B

Bacci Edmondo
Baj Enrico
Balla Giacomo
Baratella Paolo
Bargoni Giancarlo
Baumgartner Fritz
Bellegarde Claude
Bellini Vittorio
Ben Vautier
Bertini Gianni
Bertrand Solange
Bianco Remo
Bitran Albert
Blomstedt Juhana
Bohm Hartmut
Bonalumi Agostino
Bonfanti Arturo
Booumsteer Cristine
Braque Georges
Brunori Enzo
Burri Alberto
Burtin Marcel
Busse Jacques

C

Cagnone Angelo
Canfora Rolando
Canogar Rafael
Canonico Felice
Cappello Carmelo
Carmassi Arturo
Carmi Eugenio
Castellani Enrico
Charchoune Serge
Chin Xsiao
Ciacelli Arturo
Consagra Pietro
Contenotte Bruno
Corpora Antonio
Costa Toni
Costalonga Franco
Crippa Roberto
Cutrone Ronnie

D

D'angelo Claudio
Dangelo Sergio
Davie Alan
De Castro Sergio
De Filippi Fernando
Debre' Olivier
Del Pezzo Lucio
Deluigi Mario
Demarco Hugo
Dendal Yves
Di Prata Oscar
Dobashi Jun
Domoto Hisao
Dova Gianni
Dumitresco Natalia
Duncan Joseph
Duthoo Jacques
Duvillier René
Dydek Ladislav

E

Eielson Jorge Eduardo

F

Feito Luis
Finzi Ennio
Fontana Lucio
Franceschini Edoardo
Freiles Antonio
Fruhtrunk Gunter

G

Galli Aldo
Gauthier Oscar
Germain Jacques
Gianquinto Alberto
Gischia Leon
Gleizes Albert
Goetz Henri
Gontcharova Nathalia
Gorin Jean
Guerreschi Giuseppe
Guerricchio Luigi
Guitet James

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Hains Raymond
Haring Keith
Hartung Hans
Hayden Henri
Hecq Emile
Heller Rachel
Herbin Auguste
Hilmar JirÏ
Hosiasson Philippe
Hsiao Chin

I

Indiana (Clark) Robert
Istrati Alexandre

J

Jenkins Paul

K

Kijno Ladislas
Koenig John Franklin
Koler Samo
Kwatty Max

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Lahner Emile
Lam Wilfred
Lanskoy Andre'
Laske Siegfried
Lataster Ger
Le Parc Julio
Lhote Andre
Licata Riccardo
Lindstrom Bengt

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Maldonado Estuardo
Mansouroff Pavel
Mardesic Boris
Mari Enzo
Mariani Elio
Martin Philip
Masson Andre'
Mathieu Georges
Matta Roberto
Mauri Fabio
Mazzon Galliano
Messagier Jean
Middendorf Helmut
Minoli Paolo
Miro' Joan
Moncada Ignazio
Morandini Marcello
Mulas Michele
Munari Bruno
Murtic Edo
Music Zoran

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Nanni Mario
Nativi Gualtiero
Nemours Aurelie
Noël Georges
Notargiacomo Gianfranco
Notari Romano

O

Orellana Gaston
Oriani Pippo
Orloff Alexandre

P

Pace Achille
Paganin Giovanni
Paladino Mimmo
Pascali Pino
Pasotti Silvio
Peikov Ilia
Peire Luc
Perilli Achille
Perrenoud Maurice
Peverelli Cesare
Pfeiffer Henri
Piaubert Jean
Picasso Pablo
Pievani Dietelmo
Pignatelli Ercole
Pignon Edouard
Pigola Rinaldo
Pillet Edgard
Piqueras Jorge
Plessi Fabrizio
Plessi Fabrizio
Poli Tilde
Pozzati Concetto
Presta Salvador
Prometti Enrico
Pulga Bruno

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Radice Mario
Ragalzi Sergio
Ramella Giorgio
Ramous Carlo
Raspi Piero
Ravel Daniel
Reggiani Mauro
Reyes Ferreira Jesus Chucho
Richter Hans
Rodriguez-Larrain Emilio
Romathier Georges
Romiti Sergio
Rossi Horacio Garcia
Rotella Mimmo
Ruggeri Piero
Russolo Luigi

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Saroni Sergio
Satta Vincenzo
Scaccabarozzi Antonio
Scanavino Emilio
Scharf Kenny
Scheggi Paolo
Scheiber Hugo
Schneider Gérard
Scialoja Toti
Seuphor Michel
Simeti Turi
Soldati Atanasio
Soto Jesús-Rafael
Staccioli Mauro
Steffanoni Attilio
Strazza Guido
Sugai Kumi
Sutherland Graham
Swan Douglas

T

Tancredi
Tato Sansoni Guglielmo
Tharrats Joan-Josep
Treinen Marie Christine
Tritsch Pierre
Turcato Giulio

V

Vaglieri Tino
Vago Valentino
Van Haardt Georges
Van Leyden Ernest
Vasarely Victor
Vedova Emilio
Verdi Alessandro
Volpini Renato

W

Wilding Ludwig
Wyckaert Maurice
Wynter Bryan

Z

Zack Léon
Zao Wou Ki
Zappettini Gianfranco
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