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| x Albrecht Dürer |
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Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ]) (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been...
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| x Edvard Munch |
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Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The...
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| x Francisco Goya |
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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of...
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| x M. C. Escher |
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Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M.C. Escher (English pronunciation: /ˈɛʃər/, Dutch: [ˈmʌʊ̯rɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər] ( listen)), was a Dutch-Frisian graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically...
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| x Pablo Picasso |
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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one...
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| x Jasper Johns |
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Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, United States) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.
Jasper Johns grew up in Allendale, South...
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| x Henri Matisse |
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Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter....
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| x Fernand Léger |
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Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect...
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| x Pieter Brueghel the Elder |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the...
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| x Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz loˈtʁɛk]) (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in...
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| x Edward Hopper |
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Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. In both his urban and...
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| x William Hogarth |
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William Hogarth (10 November, 1697 – 26 October, 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic...
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| x John Everett Millais |
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Millais (pronounced Mih-lay) was born in Southampton, England in 1829, of a...
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| x Frank Stella |
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Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
He was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover,...
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| x Louis le Brocquy |
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Louis le Brocquy (born 10 November 1916) is an Irish painter born in Dublin. Louis le Brocquy's work has received much international attention and many accolades in a career that spans seventy years of creative practice. In 1956, he represented...
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| x Wayne Thiebaud |
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Wayne Thiebaud (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. His last name is pronounced "Tee-bo." He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his...
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| x Honoré Daumier |
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Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
A prolific draftsman who produced over...
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| x Samuel Palmer |
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Samuel Palmer (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was an English landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in English Romanticism and produced visionary pastoral paintings.
Palmer, who was born in...
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| x Richard Hamilton |
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Richard Hamilton, CH (born February 24, 1922) is an English painter and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent...
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| x Jack Levine |
Jack Levine (b. Boston, Massachusetts, January 3, 1915) is an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.
Born of Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up...
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| x Edward Ruscha |
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Edward Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film.
Ed Ruscha was born into a Jewish...
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| x Vija Celmins |
Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.
Vija Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family from Latvia when she was ten years old. She and her family settled in Indiana. Celmins received international...
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| x Arman |
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Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French artist. Born Armand Pierre Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman is a painter who moved from using the objects as paintbrushes ("allures d'objet") to using them as the painting itself. He is best...
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| x Red Grooms |
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Groom was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of...
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| x Bernard Buffet |
Bernard Buffet (July 10, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and Member of the Anti-Abstract Art Group "L 'homme Témoin [the Witness-Man]".
Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale...
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| x Margaret Kilgallen |
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Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art...
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| x Fred Williams |
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Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 - 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than...
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| x Arthur B. Davies |
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Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist.
He was born in Utica, New York and studied at the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago and then...
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| x John Brack |
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John Brack (10 May 1920 - 11 February 1999 in South Melbourne, Victoria) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.
John Brack was Art Master at Melbourne Grammar School (1952-62). His art first achieved prominence in the...
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| x Alex Katz |
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Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints.
Alex Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1928 the family moved to St. Albans...
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| x Koloman Moser |
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Koloman Moser (March 30, 1868 – October 18, 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte....
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| x E. J. Gold |
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Eugene Jeffrey (E.J.) Gold (born 1941) is an artist, author, jazz musician and spiritual teacher in the "Fourth Way" tradition of G.I. Gurdjieff. Gold's large-scale JazzArt paintings have served as backdrops for Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis,...
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| x Carlos Merida |
Carlos Mérida (1891–1984) was a Guatemalan artist.
Merida was born in Guatemala City to a family from Quetzaltenango, boasting a Maya and Zapotec heritage which was often an inspiration in his art. He began studying music (his early passion) but...
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| x Robert Mangold |
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Robert Mangold (born October 12, 1937 in North Tonawanda, New York) is an American minimalist artist.
“Robert Mangold’s paintings,” wrote Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times in 1997, “are more complicated to describe than they seem, which is...
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| x Rembrandt |
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His...
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| x Juan Fernando Cobo |
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Juan Fernando Cobo Agudelo (born August 27, 1959, in Cali, Colombia) is a Colombian painter, illustrator, sculptor and cultural promoter, one of the most notable artists of his native region, Valle del Cauca.
Cobo has lived and worked in places...
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| x Lesley Dill |
Lesley Dill, an artist born in 1950, Bronxville, New York, USA. She received a B.A. in English in 1972 from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut, USA), a Masters from Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, USA), and a Masters of Fine Arts from...
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| x Einar Hákonarson |
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Einar Hákonarson (b. 14th of January 1945, Reykjavík, Iceland) is one of Iceland's best known artists. He is an expressionistic and figurative painter who brought the figure back into Icelandic painting in 1968. He is a pioneer in the Icelandic art...
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| x Israhel van Meckenem |
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Israhel van Meckenem (also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, c. 1445 – 1503) was a German printmaker and goldsmith.
He was the most prolific engraver of the fifteenth century and an important figure in the early history of old master prints...
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| x Manuel Neri |
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Manuel Neri (born April 12, 1930) is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Neri was born in Sanger, California, to immigrant parents who had fled Mexico...
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| x Andrew Qappik |
Andrew Qappik (born February 25, 1964, in Nunataq, Nunavut) is a Canadian Inuit graphic artist currently residing in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Qappik is known for his printmaking and his contribution to the Nunavut Coat of arms.
Qappik's prints depicts...
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| x Herb Jackson |
Herb Jackson (born 1945) is an artist and is the William H. Williamson Professor of Art at Davidson College. In 1999 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina.
Herb...
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| x Jules Olitski |
Jules Olitski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007) was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR (now Schors, Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was...
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| x Philip Evergood |
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Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki, 1901 in New York City – died 1973 in Bridgewater, Connecticut) was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer. He was particularly active during the...
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| x Carl Gaertner |
Carl Gaertner (1898 - 1952) was an American artist.
Gaertner was born in Cleveland in 1898 and remained there until his death in 1952. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, which was then called the Cleveland School of Art, from 1920-1923...
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| x Eva Navarro |
Eva Navarro (born 1967) is a Spanish painter living in Madrid, Spain. She has a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her work is considered part of the Spanish New Figurative Art Movement. She has mostly...
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| x Toru Iwaya |
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Toru Iwaya (岩谷徹） (born Feb 12, 1936) is a Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter.
Born in Koriyama, Japan in 1936 as the last child of Iwaya Kanekichi and Kageyama Matsu, Toru Iwaya went, at the age of 19, to Tokyo. After he graduated from the...
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| x Anthony Lister |
Anthony Lister (1980 – present) is an Australian-born painter and Installation artist. He has been featured in exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, as well as had solo shows in New York City and London, England. He is...
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| x Lennart Rodhe |
Lennart Rodhe (November 15, 1916 – January 17, 2005), Swedish artist, painter and printmaker. Lennart Rodhe enrolled as a student in 1934 at Edward Berggrens studio at Tekniska skolan in Stockholm, and studied under Peter Rostrup-Boyesen i Köpenhamn...
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| x Mario Maskareli |
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Mario Maskareli (Serbian Cyrillic: Марио Маскарели) (Cetinje, 20 October 1918 – Risan, 26 August 1996), a Yugoslav painter, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting in 1951, with Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović. In...
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| x Rafael Trelles |
Rafael Trelles (born April 27, 1957) is a postmodern artist from Puerto Rico.
Rafael Trelles was born on April 27, 1957 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He began studying painting at the age of eleven, under the guidance of Spanish painter Julio Yort. In...
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| x Shraga Weil |
Shraga Weil (Born:September 24, 1918) is an Israeli painter.
Shraga Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in [1918] to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father was a building engineer.
He was sent to study with a local sculptor,...
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| x Frank N. Wilcox |
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Frank Nelson Wilcox (1887 - 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald.
Frank...
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| x Grahame King |
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Grahame King was a prominent Australian printmaker. He was married to the Sculptor Inge King. Grahame Lectured in Printmaking at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1966-88. In 1966 Grahame was instrumental in setting up the Print Council...
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| x Ty Jones |
Ty Jones is an artist,designer and art gallery owner in Sonoma County, California.
In late 1993 and early 1994, Ty Jones, aka Ty Dakota, joined Audrey Joseph in ownership of Club Townsend. To compliment the popular Sunday night gay tea dance,...
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| x Stefan Szczesny |
Stefan Szczesny (April 09, 1951) is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Junge Wilde movement by, among other things, organizing the exhibition "Rundschau Deutschland" in 1981. Two of his most famous...
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| x Molly Lamb Bobak |
Molly Lamb Bobak, CM, ONB is a prolific Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada’s war effort, and in...
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| x Mark Rowden |
Mark Rowden was born in Margate, England in 1979. He left school to study fulltime at a local art college. Finishing this course after a year he then moved to SydneyAustralia in the late-1990s. Following the move he continued his studies for four...
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| x Salvatore Zofrea |
Salvatore Zofrea (born 1946) is an Italio-Australian artist and painter.
Zofrea was born in Borgia, Italy in 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 1956. He studied at the Julian Ashton School in Sydney, and privately with Henry V. Justelius
He often...
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