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Figurative Artworks by Historicized Italian and International Artists of the 19th and 20th Century

Jean Alfred Adler

Parigi, 1899 - Birkenau (Polonia), 1942
A painter of portraits, nudes, and landscapes, he studied first under his uncle Jules Adler, then, from 1919, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Louis B...

Ermenegildo Agazzi

Mapello, Bergamo, 1866 - Bergamo, 1945
He was admitted to study at the Accademia Carrara in 1885, but already in the preceding years he received his first teachings from his brother Rinaldo...

Louis Anquetin

Étrépagny, Francia, 1861 - Parigi, 1932
Through Toulouse-Lautrec, Anquetin participates in the Art Indépendant in Antwerp and, in 1889, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition in Paris,...

Reynold Arnould

Le Havre, 1919 - Parigi, 1980
Nel 1960 è invitato alla Biennale di Venezia e nel 1969 la Galerie de France di Parigi ospita una sua importante retrospettiva.Dal 1949 fino al 1962 e...

Maurice Asselin

Orléans, Francia, 1882 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, Francia, 1947
Nel 1908 parte in treno per l’Italia, muovendosi poi tra Roma e Firenze in bicicletta. L’anno seguente gli vengono allestite le prime mostre: a Parigi...

Gustave Francois Beaudelet

Parigi, 1893 - 1968
A painter of post-impressionist tendencies, specializing in landscapes, he participated in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris between 1928 and 1963;...

Émile Bernard

Lille, 1868 - Parigi, 1941
A major retrospective on the artist was organized in 2015 by the Museo d'Orsay and the National Museum of the Orangerie in Paris. Emile Bernard is...

Paul Albert Besnard

Parigi, 1849 - 1934
From 1923 he was a regular at the Salon d'Automne and, from 1924, at the Salon des Tuileries. In 1914 he directed of the Villa Medici in Rome, in...

Gabriel-Marie Biessy

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont, Francia, 1854 - Bourg-la-Reine, Francia, 1935
From 1882 his canvases were admitted to the Paris Salon. Having begun to travel, mainly to North and South America, Senegal and much of Europe, his wo...

Roger Bissiere

Francia, 1886 - Marminiac, Francia, 1964
In 1952, he was awarded the Grand Prix National des Arts. In 1954 and 1955 he is invited to the Venice and São Paulo Biennales in Brazil, and in 1959...

Charles Blanc

Limoges, 1896 - 1966
Charles Blanc was famous from a young age, and considered by Louis Vauxcelles as the greatest among the successors of the Fauves.The virulence, the au...

Jacques-Émile Blanche

Parigi, 1861 - Offranville, Francia, 1942
The quality of the painting, the precious greys and the silver lights make Jacques-Emile Blanche an artist closer to Manet, admired much more, than th...

Dino Boschi

Bologna, 1923 - 2015
After graduating from high school, in 1943 he enrolled in the course of Decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he followed the lesso...

Bruno Cassinari

Piacenza, 1912 - Milano, 1992
The painter's success brought his works over the decades: female figures and landscapes, seascapes and horses, with their essential construction a...

Victor Charreton

Bourgoin-Jallieu, 1864 - Clermont-Ferrand, Francia, 1936
Charreton's figure fits well into the landscape school of the Lyon tradition with its taste for impastos, its search for momentary effects, hours...

Guido Cinotti

Siena, 1870 - Milano, 1932
Guido Cinotti is a prominent exponent of Italian Divisionism. His painting presents a textural, mellow layering with touches of spatulate color.

Albert Copieux

Angers, Francia, 1885 - Havre, Francia, 1956
Albert Copieux, pittore de l’école normande, nasce nel 1885. All’età di sette anni, dopo la morte del padre, si trasferisce ad Havre con la madre, ori...

Andre' Cottavoz

Saint-Marcellin, Francia, 1922 - 2012
Andre Cottavoz was a French painter of the Paris School. He paints nudes, landscapes inspired by Tuscany and the Alps, views of Lyon and beaches with...

Gustave Courbet

Ornans, Francia, 1819 - La Tour-de-Peilz, Svizzera, 1877
He was born into a well-to-do peasant family and received a thorough education at the seminary in Ornans and the Royal College in Besançon. After a br...

Georges D'Espagnat

Melun, Francia, 1870 - Parigi, 1950
Although inspired by Impressionist painting, D'Espagnat's landscapes and still lifes are distinguished by a more decisive restraint and intima...

Bernard Damiano

Saretto, Cuneo, 1926 - Nizza, 2000
“Le Monde” and “Le Figaro” wrote about him but critical acclaim awaited him in Milan in 1989 where he was noticed by Giovanni Testori. The great art c...

Karl Pierre Daubigny

Parigi,1846 - Auvers-sur-Oise, Francia, 1886
Karl Daubigny followed his father's teachings and also took en-plein-air painting to the highest level with the creation of water features, which...

Emmanuel De La Villeon

Fougères, Francia, 1858 - Parigi, 1944
From an early age he was attracted to literature, poetry and drawing. In 1880 he left his hometown to settle in Paris where he entered the Académie Ju...

Maurice Denis

Granville, Francia, 1870 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Francia, 1943
Denis's personality began to fully manifest itself only after 1890, during his stay in Pont-Aven; here the artist experienced success, offering ma...

André Derain

Chatou, Parigi, 1880 - Garches, 1954
He enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering to fulfill his parents' wishes, but interrupted his studies to devote himself entirely to painting. From...

Isaac Dobrinsky

Makaroff, Ucraina, 1891 - Parigi, 1973
Since 1930 he has had important solo exhibitions in Paris: Galerie L'Epoque, Galerie Charpentier, Galerie Bosc, Galerie Passali and in London at t...

Daniel Duchemin

Segré (Maine-et-Loire, Francia), 1866 - 1937
Le sue tele vengono costantemente ammesse alle Esposizioni; dal 1897 è inoltre membro societario del Salon e nel 1908 riceve la menzione onorevole.Neg...

Pierre Dumont

Parigi, 1884 - Rouen, 1936
Influenced by the paintings of Van Gogh and Cézanne, he paints landscapes of strong colors, with thick and fat matter, lying on canvas as if sculpting...

Louis Jean-Noel Duveau

Saint-Malo, 1818 - Parigi, 1867
Louis Duveau studiò pittura nello studio di Léon Cogniet all' École des Beaux-Arts di Parigi e partecipò al Prix de Rome nel 1842, ottenendo il se...

Felice Filippini

Arbedo, Bellinzona, 1917 - Muzzano di Arbedo, 1988
In 1952 he won the Premio Isole di Brissago, in 1953 the Premio Veillon per le arti figurative, in 1954 the Premio della III Biennale Internazionale d...

Jean-Louis Forain

Reims, Francia 1852 - Parigi, 1931
His painting is essentially taken live; often Forain wanders the streets and in the cafés-chantants and nothing escapes his incisive and scratchy penc...

Émile-Othon Friesz

Le Havre, Francia, 1879 - Parigi, 1949
He attends the School of Fine Arts of Le Havre, from 1894 to 1897; in Charles Lhullier's Atelier he meets Raoul Dufy with whom he establishes a de...

Lorenzo Gignous

Modena, 1862 - Porto Ceresio, Varese, 1958
 Espone a numerose mostre organizzate in varie città italiane: nel 1880 a Firenze; nel 1881 e nel 1906 a Milano; a Torino nel 1882. Una sua opera, Rus...

Francesco Gioli

San Frediano a Settimo, Pisa, 1846 - Firenze, 1922
He finds his way in observation and in the passionate study of nature.His paintings, rich in pictorial resources, reproduce landscapes, figures, portr...

Eugène Pierre François Giraud

Parigi, 1806 - 1881
In the Parisian salons Giraud enjoys portraying the celebrities of the time and the set of these drawings and sketches constitutes a valuable iconogra...

Georges Goldkorn

Szydlowice, Polonia, 1908 - Parigi, 1977
Nel 1957 all’esposizione “Comparaison” la sua tela è giudicata dal critico René Barotte, il miglior invio a fianco di quella di Alexander Garbell, Jac...

Paul Guiramand

Saint-Quentin, Francia, 1926 - XIV arrondissement di Parigi, 2007
La sua attività professionale viene riconosciuta quando vince il "Prix de Rome" nel 1953; la sua prima mostra è alla Marlborourgh Fine Art di Londra....

Henri Harpignies

Valenciennes, 1819 - Saint-Privé, Francia, 1916
Essentially a landscape painter, Harpignies has depicted forests, villages, the sea, rivers of many French and Italian regions, with a predilection fo...

Paul Huet

Parigi, 1803 - 1869
He is one of the first painters in France to translate atmospheric variations and is considered, among contemporaries, the initiator and master of the...

Isis Kischka

Parigi, 1908 - 1973
Artist of the Ecole de Paris, in 1946 he participated in the creation of the Salon des Peintres témoins de leur temps, with Jean Cassou, Yvon Bizardel...

Pinchus Kremegne

Céret, Francia, 1890 - 1981
After the hesitations between sculpture and painting of the early years of training, and after some paintings of symbolist tendency, he finds in Van G...

Charles Kvapil

Anversa, 1884 - Parigi, 1958
Kvapil first approached Fauvism and then Cubism; in his works he noted his great love for nature, which was linked to the tradition of Flemish paintin...

Charles Augustus Lasar

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1856 - Neuilly, Francia, 1936
Lasar has exhibited in places such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the Paris Exposition of 1889, various Salons in Pa...

Henri Le Fauconnier

Hesdin, Francia, 1881 - Parigi, 1946
In 1911 he contributed to the scandal caused by Cubist works at the Salon des Indépendants together with Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger...

Pierre Lepage

Epinal, Francia, 1906 - 1983
He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris and the Salon d'Automne, of which he became a member in 1941. His first solo ex...

Roger Marcel Limouse

Collo, Algeria, 1894 - Parigi, 1990
Limouse made his debut at the Salon des artistes français in 1924, sending a large nude; meanwhile, he approached Cubist research and made contact wit...

Gustave Loiseau

Parigi, 1865 - 1935
While in the works he retains the syntheticist construction learned from Gauguin and Bernard, Loiseau's merit is that he brought to Post-Impressio...

Trento Longaretti

Treviglio, Bergamo, 1916 - Bergamo, 2017
Trento Longaretti completed his artistic studies at the Artistic High School of Milan and, after graduating, he enrolled in the Faculty of Architectur...

Maximilien Luce

Parigi, 1858 - Rolleboise, Francia, 1941
La personale allestita nel 1899 da Durand-Ruel con sessantun opere, riscuote considerevole successo e dà il via ad una serie di esposizioni presso le...

Élisée Maclet

Piccardia, Francia, 1881 - Parigi, 1962
Born in a small village in Picardy, he was noticed by Puvis de Chavannes, who advised his father in vain to start him on his artistic career. Instinct...

Cesare Maggi

Roma, 1881 - Torino, 1961
Thanks to his commercial collaboration with Alberto Grubicy until 1913, Maggi quickly established himself as one of the leading representatives of Sec...

Marcel Mangin

Cherbourg, Francia, 1852 - Parigi, 1915
Studia sotto la guida dei maestri Harpignies e J. P. Laurens. Tra il 1875 e il 1914 espone costantemente ai Salons de Paris, ricevendo una menzione on...

Luigi Mantovani

Milano, 1880 - 1957
After perfecting himself at Cesare Tallone's school of nudes, he made his debut in 1900 at the Brera Triennale with a light palette and a delicate...

Louis Marechal

Francia, 1884 - 1971
His painting is well-structured, if in some works one observes references that can be linked to the Ecole de Barbizon, others are clearly post-impress...

Piero Marussig

Trieste, 1879 - Pavia, 1937
Piero Marussig, after training in his hometown under Eugenio Scomparini, traveled between major European cities such as Vienna, Munich and Paris, wher...

Adolphe Milich

Tishne (Polonia), 1884 - Parigi, 1964
Adolphe Milich began to paint from the age of thirteen. His father, a merchant, lost everything in a fire and in order to support the family he was fo...

Abraham Mintchine

Kiev, 1898 - La Garde, Francia, 1931
His painting is without doubt realistic, but this is his reality, observed and magnified so as to reflect the complexities of his emotional experience...

Pierre Eugène Montézin

Parigi, 1874 - Moëlan-sur-Mer, Francia, 1946
In 1923 he was awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor, and in 1927 he was appointed president of the Salon de l'Union des Beaux-Arts i...

Emilio Notte

Ceglie Messapica, Milano, 1891 - Napoli, 1982
He was born to Giovanni Notte, from a wealthy Marosticana family, and Countess Lucinda Chiumenti Fincati of Vicenza. The family moved first to Lagoneg...

Henry Ottman

Ancenis, Francia, 1877 - Vernon, Francia, 1927
A venerator of Renoir's painting, Ottmann, a delicate colorist with an expression full of sensitivity, was long ignored by collectors, but has rec...

Roland Oudot

Parigi, 1897 - 1981
Oudot belongs to that group of artists who came to prominence between the wars under the name Poetic Reality Painters and are generally regarded as th...

William Alfred Parsons

Beckington, 1847 - Broadway, Inghilterra, 1920
Alfred Parsons is well known for his English rural landscape paintings and fine botanical illustrations.

Charles Picart-Le-Doux

XIV arrondissement di Parigi, 1881 - 1959
A painter in the Ecole de Paris group, he received the Grand Médaille at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937.  

Henri Marie Poinsot

Parigi, 1831 - 1914
He is a pupil of C. Ciceri and Rubé, a landscape painter and practical decorative master, as well as an elegant miniaturist.From 1857 until 1908 he ex...

Isachie Constantin Popescu

Pascani, Romania, 1888 - Bucarest, 1967
Nel 1927 ottiene una medaglia d'argento al Salon des Artistes Francais con un ritratto di sua moglie, dal titolo Fleur Bleue. Dopo sver frequentat...

Epifanio Pozzato

Biella, 1931 - 2007
Si accosta alla pittura giovanissimo e frequenta l’Accademia Albertina di Torino avendo come maestri Cesare Maggi, Guido Mosca e Antonio Zucconi. Nel...

Jean Puy

Roanne, France, 1876 - 1960
Although he was a Fauve painter (albeit for only a few years, c. 1905-1908), he is distinguished from them by good taste and discretion. His works are...

Ernesto Quarti Marchio'

Bergamo, 1907 - 1982
The strong aptitudes for drawing led the family to enroll him, very young, at the Art School "Andrea Fantoni" allowing him, at the age of only twelve,...

Alphonse Leon Quizet

Parigi, 1885 - 1955
He is the painter of Paris now gone, that of the old neighborhoods, of the deserted alleys, of the steep steps of the Butte. He often painted Le Mouli...

Emile Philippe Auguste Schneider

Illkirch-Graffenstaden, Francia, 1873 - L'Haÿ-les-Roses, Francia, 1947
Dopo aver frequentato la Scuola di arti decorative di Strasburgo ha proseguito i suoi studi presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Monaco di Baviera,...

Gaston Sebire

Saint-Samson (Calvados), Francia, 1920 - 2001
Nel 1965 espone per la prima volta negli Stati Uniti, a Palm Beach e poi a Chigago, Los Angeles, e New York. Tra le numerosissime mostre collettive al...

Gino Severini

Cortona, 1883 - Parigi, 1966
after joining the Futurist movement at the invitation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Boccioni, in April 1910 he signed the Manifesto tecnico della p...

Émile-Henry Tilmans

Louvain, Belgio, 1888 - Rouen, Francia, 1960
Allievo dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Lovanio e poi di Bruxelles, si trasferisce in seguito in Francia e nel 1940 apre un atelier a Rouen. Le sue co...

Fiorenzo Tomea

Zoppè di Cadore, Belluno, 1910 - Milano, 1960
Tomea’s life is marked by the various stages of his success: exhibitions, prizes, commissions and the execution of great religious works. After partic...

Suzanne Valadon

Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Francia, 1865 - Parigi, Francia, 1938
Nel 1931 Suzanne Valadon aderisce ad una delle prime organizzazioni di donne pittrici, la FAM (Fédération des Femmes Artistes Modernes, 1931-1938) fon...

Paolo Vallorz

Caldés, Trento, 1931 - Parigi, 2017
Nel '95 Jean Clair, direttore del museo Picasso a Parigi e suo estimatore lo invita all'importante rassegna “Identità e alterità” che, a Venez...

Edmond Van Coppenolle

Gand, Belgio, 1846 - Chateau Landon, Francia, 1914
Edmond Van Coppenolle was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1846. In 1872, he moved to France, to Moret-sur-Loing, near Montigny, to work in the Schopin cera...

Claude Vanier (Simon Abramovich)

Le Havre, 1910 - 1958
Sull’esempio dei grandi maestri Boudin, Jongkind e Friesz ama molto la pittura di paesaggio, soprattutto le marine.Inizialmente sedotto dalla pittura...

Vitali Velasco

Bellano, Lecco, 1960
Disegna, dipinge e modella cemento e ferro tra il lago, Milano e la Sicilia. La sua attività, partita dal disegno e dalla grafica, si rivolge presto v...

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Abbati Giuseppe
Acremant Jacques
Adler Jean Alfred
Adler Jules
Adrion Lucien
Agazzi Ermenegildo
Agazzi Paolo Carlo
Agazzi Rinaldo
Agostini Max
Alebardi Angiolo
Alfieri Attilio
Ambrosini Vincent
Amisani Giuseppe
Andre' Albert
Andrich Lucio
Anquetin Louis
Antcher Isaac
Antral Robert
Arnould Reynold
Asselin Maurice

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Badodi Arnaldo
Balla Giacomo
Baratella Paolo
Barbieri Contardo
Baumgartner Fritz
Bazzaro Leonardo
Beaudelet Gustave Francois
Bernard Émile
Bertoloni Renato
Besnard Paul Albert
Bianchi Alberto
Bianchi Mose'
Biasion Renzo
Biessy Gabriel-Marie
Birolli Renato
Bissiere Roger
Blanc Charles
Blanche Jacques-Émile
Bonnard Pierre
Borra Pompeo
Borsato Renato
Boschi Dino
Boudin Eugene
Braque Georges
Brignoli Luigi
Brindisi Remo
Brunori Enzo

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Campigli Massimo
Canella Carlo
Carena Felice
Cargnel Vittore Antonio
Carmassi Arturo
Carnelli Giuseppe
Carnovali, detto Il Piccio Giovanni
Carrà Carlo
Carriere Eugene Anatole
Cascella Pietro
Cassinari Bruno
Cattaneo Achille
Chagall Marc
Chapiro Jacques
Charreton Victor
Chessa Mauro
Cinotti Guido
Coghetti Francesco
Copieux Albert
Corcuff Charles
Corlin Gustave Auguste
Cottavoz Andre'
Courbet Gustave
Cremieux Edouard

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D'Espagnat Georges
Dagron Christian
Dalbono Edoardo
Damiano Bernard
Daubigny Karl Pierre
Dauchot Gabriel
Dauphin Raymond
De La Pena Narcisse Diaz
De La Villeon Emmanuel
De Pisis Filippo
De Vlaminck Maurice
Degli Abbati Luigi
Delacroix Eugène
Denis Maurice
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Deyrolle Jean
Dobrinsky Isaac
Dore' Gustave
Duchemin Daniel
Dufresne Charles
Dufy Raoul
Dumont Pierre
Duodo Giuseppe
Durenne Eugène Antoine
Duveau Louis Jean-Noel

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Eberl Francois

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Fantin-Latour Ignace
Favory Andre'
Ferroni Gianfranco
Ferroni Riccardo Tommasi
Filippini Felice
Fontana Roberto
Forain Jean-Louis
Formis Befani Achille
Friesz Émile-Othon
Funi Achille

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Gaudibert Jean Raphael Auguste
Gazzera Romano
Gentilini Franco
Giandante X
Gianpaolo Lazzaro
Gignous Lorenzo
Gillet Roger Edgard
Gioli Francesco
Giraud Eugène Pierre François
Gola Emilio
Goldkorn Georges
Gromaire Marcel
Grosz George
Guerin Charles
Guidi Virgilio
Guillaumin Armand
Guindon Andre' Marius
Guiramand Paul
Guttuso Renato

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Hanoteau Hector-Charles
Harpignies Henri
Hecht Joseph
Hoffman Gaston
Huet Paul

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Innocenti Camillo

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Kischka Isis
Kremegne Pinchus
Kunz Ludwig Adam
Kvapil Charles

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Lanfranco
Lasar Charles Augustus
Le Fauconnier Henri
Leconte YVONNE
Lepage Pierre
Leroux Auguste
Levy Henri Leopold
Limouse Roger Marcel
Lionne Enrico
Loiseau Gustave
Longaretti Trento
Loutreuil Maurice Albert
Luce Maximilien

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Maccio' Demostene
Maclet Élisée
Maffioletti Erminio
Maggi Cesare
Maidner Ludwig
Maillart Diogene
Malagodi Giuseppe
Malesci Giovanni
Mancini Antonio
Mangin Marcel
Manguin Henri
Mannucci Cipriano
Mantovani Luigi
Mantovani Luigi
Marechal Louis
Marussig Piero
Maufra Maxime
Medici Del Vascello Osvaldo
Meidner Ludwig
Menster Raffaele
Menzio Francesco
Milich Adolphe
Mintchine Abraham
Montézin Pierre Eugène
Morandi Giorgio

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Namur Paul-Franz
Notte Emilio

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Oprandi Giorgio
Ottman Henry
Oudot Roland

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Paquereau Paul
Parsons William Alfred
Paulucci Enrico
Pellegrini Riccardo
Pellizza Da Volpedo Giuseppe
Petitjean Hippolyte
Picart-Le-Doux Charles
Piet Fernand
Pinetti Sandro
Pissarro Camille
Pobbiati Mario
Poinsot Henri Marie
Poma Silvio
Popescu Isachie Constantin
Pouget Marcel
Pozzato Epifanio
Previati Gaetano
Puy Jean

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Quarti Marchio' Ernesto
Quelvee François-Albert
Quizet Alphonse Leon

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Recchi Ugo
Reyes Ferreira Jesus Chucho
Rochegrosse Georges
Rognoni Franco
Romagnoni Bepi
Ronzoni Pietro
Rosa Costantino
Rosai Ottone
Rosier Amedee
Rossi Domenico
Rossi Ilario
Rossi Luigi
Rousseau Gabriel
Rumi Donnino
Russolo Luigi

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Sala Paolo
Salietti Alberto
Scattola Ferruccio
Schneider Emile Philippe Auguste
Schuffenecker Claude
Scorzelli Eugenio
Scuri Enrico
Sebire Gaston
Segal Simon
Serusier Paul
Severini Gino
Signac Paul
Sironi Mario
Somm Henri
Soutine Chaim
Souverbie' Jean
Steffani Luigi
Steffanoni Attilio
Survage Leopold

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Tal Coat Pierre
Tallone Cesare
Terechovitch Constantin
Testori Giovanni
Tilmans Émile-Henry
Tomea Fiorenzo
Tosi Arturo
Toulouse-Lautrec Henri
Trecourt Giacomo
Trouillebert Paul Desire

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Utrillo Maurice

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Valadon Suzanne
Vallorz Paolo
Valtat Louis
Van Coppenolle Edmond
Vanier (Simon Abramovich) Claude
Velasco Vitali
Verdilhan Andre'
Viani Alberto
Vitali Alberto
Viviani Raoul
Volovick Lazare

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Wormser Henri
Wouters Roger
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