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Amedeo Modigliani
Born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Livorno, he studies painting in Italy before settling ...
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Pablo Picasso
An early prodigy trained by his art-teacher father, he settles permanently in Paris in 1904 ...
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Chaïm Soutine
Born into a very poor Jewish family near Minsk, he studies in Vilnius before moving ...
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Ossip Zadkine
Born in Vitebsk like Chagall, he studies in London before settling in Paris in 1910, ...
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Guillaume Apollinaire
A poet born in Rome to a Polish mother, he settles in Paris and becomes ...
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Henri Matisse
Originally a law clerk, he turns to painting during a convalescence and becomes in 1905 ...
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Moïse Kisling
Trained at the Kraków School of Fine Arts, he settles in Paris in 1910 and ...
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Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
The son of a German banker destined for a career in finance, he chooses the ...
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Fernand Léger
Trained as an architect before turning to painting, he joins the Cubist circle and exhibits ...
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André Derain
He meets Matisse at the Académie Carrière, then Vlaminck, with whom he shares a studio ...
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Gertrude Stein
An American writer settled in Paris from 1903 with her brother Leo, she opens a ...
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Kiki de Montparnasse
Born Alice Prin into a very modest family, she becomes a model for numerous Montparnasse ...
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Marc Chagall
Born into a Hasidic Jewish family in Vitebsk, he studies painting in Saint Petersburg before ...
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Tsuguharu Foujita
The son of a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, he studies Western-style painting in ...
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Ambroise Vollard
Born in Réunion, he settles in Paris to study law before turning to the picture ...
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Berthe Weill
Formerly a shop assistant in an antiques store, she opens her own gallery on Rue ...
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Chana Orloff
Born in Ukraine to a Jewish family that emigrates to Ottoman Palestine during her childhood, ...
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Georges Braque
Trained in his father’s decorative painting workshop in Le Havre, he discovers Fauvism in 1905 ...
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Juan Gris
Trained as an industrial draughtsman in Madrid, he settles in Paris in 1906 and lodges ...
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Kees van Dongen
Trained at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts, he settles in Paris in 1897 and ...
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Léopold Zborowski
A Polish poet who comes to Paris to study literature, he turns to art dealing ...
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Marie Vassilieff
Trained at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, she settles in Paris in ...
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Maurice de Vlaminck
A professional cyclist and violinist before turning to painting, he shares a studio in Chatou ...
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Pinchus Krémègne
Born in a small town in present-day Belarus, he studies sculpture in Vilnius alongside Kikoïne ...
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Robert Delaunay
Close to early Cubism, he moves away from it to develop, together with his wife ...
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Sonia Delaunay
Born in Ukraine, she is raised by a wealthy uncle in Saint Petersburg who funds ...
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Albert C. Barnes
An American physician and chemist, he makes his fortune from inventing an antiseptic, Argyrol, before ...
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Alexander Archipenko
Trained at the Kyiv School of Art, he settles in Paris in 1908, frequenting La ...
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Alice B. Toklas
Born in San Francisco, she settles in Paris in 1907 and meets Gertrude Stein soon ...
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Bella Chagall
The daughter of a wealthy jewellery-trading family in Vitebsk, she meets Marc Chagall in 1909 ...
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Constantin Brâncuși
The son of Romanian peasants and a self-taught sculptor trained at the Bucharest School of ...
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Jean Cocteau
A poet, novelist, playwright and filmmaker who tried his hand at everything, he frequents Parisian ...
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Jeanne Hébuterne
A student at the Académie Colarossi, she meets Modigliani in 1917 and becomes his companion ...
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Jules Pascin
Born into a Sephardic Jewish family from Vidin, he grows up in Romania and studies ...
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Man Ray
An American painter first active in the Dada movement in New York, he settles in ...
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Marevna
Born Maria Vorobieff in the Volga region, she studies art in Moscow and then Italy ...
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Marie Laurencin
A student at the Académie Humbert, she frequents the Bateau-Lavoir and grows close to the ...
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Maurice Utrillo
The natural son of the painter Suzanne Valadon, he begins painting on a doctor’s advice ...
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Michel Kikoïne
A childhood friend of Soutine and Krémègne in Minsk, he studies with them in Vilnius ...
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Paul Guillaume
Originally a tyre salesman, he discovers a passion for African art, which he begins collecting ...
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Serge Poliakoff
From a wealthy Moscow family scattered by the 1917 revolution, he wanders across Europe as ...
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Suzanne Valadon
A former circus acrobat turned model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, she studies ...