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TOP 200 ARTISTS
OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW


TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS

AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:

-Pablo Picasso
-Paul Cezanne
-Gustav Klimt
-Claude Monet
-Marcel Duchamp
-Henri Matisse
-Jackson Pollock
-Andy Warhol
-Willem De Kooning
-Piet Mondrian
-Paul Gauguin
-Francis Bacon
-Robert Rauschenberg
-Georges Braque
-Wassily Kandinsky
-Constantin Brancusi
-Kasimir Malevich
-Jasper Johns
-Frida Kahlo
-Martin Kippenberger
-Paul Klee
-Egon Schiele
-Donald Judd
-Bruce Nauman
-Alberto Giacometti
-Salvador Dalí
-Auguste Rodin
-Mark Rothko
-Edward Hopper
-Lucian Freud
-Richard Serra
-Rene Magritte
-David Hockney
-Philip Guston
-Henri Cartier-Bresson
-Pierre Bonnard
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
-Max Ernst
-Diane Arbus
-Georgia O'Keeffe
-Cy Twombly
-Max Beckmann
-Barnett Newman
-Giorgio De Chirico
-Roy Lichtenstein
-Edvard Munch
-Pierre Auguste Renoir
-Man Ray
-Henry Moore
-Cindy Sherman
-Jeff Koons
-Tracey Emin
-Damien Hirst
-Yves Klein
-Henri Rousseau
-Chaim Soutine
-Arshile Gorky
-Amedeo Modigliani
-Umberto Boccioni
-Jean Dubuffet
-Eva Hesse
-Edouard Vuillard
-Carl Andre
-Juan Gris
-Lucio Fontana
-Franz Kline
-David Smith
-Joseph Beuys
-Alexander Calder
-Louise Bourgeois
-Marc Chagall
-Gerhard Richter
- Balthus
-Joan Miro
-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
-Frank Stella
-Georg Baselitz
-Francis Picabia
-Jenny Saville
-Dan Flavin
-Alfred Stieglitz
-Anselm Kiefer
-Matthew Barney
-George Grosz
-Bernd And Hilla Becher
-Sigmar Polke
-Brice Marden
-Maurizio Cattelan
-Sol LeWitt
-Chuck Close
-Edward Weston
-Joseph Cornell
-Karel Appel
-Bridget Riley
-Alexander Archipenko
-Anthony Caro
-Richard Hamilton
-Clyfford Still
-Luc Tuymans
-Claes Oldenburg

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Saatchi Gallery
YOUR TOP 500 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

YOUR TOP 500 ARTISTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY

 

 

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.



# Artist list Votes Click to vote
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001
Pablo Picasso
     133663
002
Gustav Klimt
     124088
003
Claude Monet
     123110
004
Paul Cézanne
     122631
005
Georges Braque
     122000
006
Amedeo Modigliani
     120963
007
Paul Gauguin
     120890
008
Henri Matisse
     120771
009
Andy Warhol
     120631
010
Marcel Duchamp
     120612
011
Jackson Pollock
     120543
012
Egon Schiele
     120473
013
Wassily Kandinsky
     120451
014
Auguste Rodin
     120410
015
Francis Bacon
     120393
016
Piet Mondrian
     120392
017
Willem De Kooning
     120392
018
Constantin Brancusi
     119683
019
Paul Klee
     119281
020
Frida Kahlo
     119083
021
Martin Kippenberger
     118318
022
Edvard Munch
     118282
023
Chaim Soutine
     117735
024
Joan Miró
     117684
025
Lucian Freud
     117551
026
René Magritte
     117542
027
Alberto Giacometti
     116774
028
Mark Rothko
     116664
029
Henry Moore
     116578
030
Robert Rauschenberg
     116544
031
Max Ernst
     111224
032
Joseph Beuys
     111147
033
Henri Rousseau
     111130
034
Edward Hopper
     111110
035
Cy Twombly
     111107
036
Richard Serra
     111036
037
Kasimir Malevich
     110993
038
Arshile Gorky
     110939
039
Pierre Bonnard
     110915
040
Donald Judd
     110887
041
Èdouard Vuillard
     110887
042
Cindy Sherman
     110842
043
Marlene Dumas
     110830
044
Francis Picabia
     110810
045
Gerhard Richter
     110803
046
Louise Bourgeois
     110787
047
Barnett Newman
     110747
048
Max Beckmann
     110733
049
Jean-Michel Basquiat
     110206
050
Bruce Nauman
     94258
051
Salvador Dalí
     89541
052
Pierre Auguste Renoir
     88480
053
Otto Dix
     86708
054
Balthus
     86695
055
Jasper Johns
     86668
056
Yves Klein
     86665
057
Fernand Léger
     86653
058
Carl Andre
     86641
059
Brice Marden
     86634
060
Roy Lichtenstein
     86632
061
Georgia O'Keeffe
     86614
062
Alexander Calder
     86609
063
Eva Hesse
     86607
064
Lucio Fontana
     86597
065
Jean Arp
     86585
066
Anselm Kiefer
     86584
067
Jeff Koons
     86574
068
Juan Gris
     86569
069
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
     86567
070
Jean Dubuffet
     86565
071
Nan Goldin
     86564
072
Aleksandr Rodchenko
     86563
073
David Smith
     86562
074
Barbara Hepworth
     86561
075
Frank Stella
     86558
076
Matthew Barney
     86553
077
Robert Smithson
     86552
078
Sol LeWitt
     86547
079
Philip Guston
     86547
080
Clyfford Still
     86540
081
László Moholy-Nagy
     86066
082
Man Ray
     85295
083
Paul Signac
     85276
084
Giorgio Morandi
     85265
085
Fernando Botero
     85256
086
Emil Nolde
     85254
087
David Hockney
     85248
088
George Grosz
     85245
089
John Marin
     85238
090
Franz Marc
     85236
091
Gordon Matta-Clark
     85232
092
Odilon Redon
     85231
093
Joseph Cornell
     85229
094
Isamu Noguchi
     85229
095
Luc Tuymans
     85227
096
Sigmar Polke
     85227
097
Jeff Wall
     85226
098
Bridget Riley
     85225
099
Claes Oldenburg
     85225
100
Robert Ryman
     85225
101
Richard Hamilton
     85224
102
Kurt Schwitters
     85220
103
Chuck Close
     85219
104
Franz Kline
     85219
105
Charles Sheeler
     85216
106
Richard Prince
     85215
107
Bernd And Hilla Becher
     85213
108
Richard Diebenkorn
     85213
109
Andre Masson
     85213
110
Hans Bellmer
     85212
111
Ed Ruscha
     85211
112
Georg Baselitz
     85211
113
Robert Motherwell
     85211
114
Gilbert & George
     85202
115
Arnulf Rainer
     85201
116
Paula Rego
     84949
117
R.B. Kitaj
     84914
118
Eric Fischl
     84910
119
Pierre Soulages
     84908
120
Fischli & Weiss
     84907
121
Duane Hanson
     84906
122
Paul Delvaux
     82307
123
Bill Viola
     82270
124
Yves Tanguy
     82228
125
Andrè Derain
     82182
126
Lissitzky EI
     82155
127
Tamara De Lempicka
     82083
128
Victor Brauner
     81999
129
Anish Kapoor
     81998
130
Christo And Jeanne Claude
     81993
131
Maurice De Vlaminck
     81990
132
Barbara Kruger
     81962
133
James Ensor
     81950
134
Ad Reinhardt
     81946
135
Aristide Maillol
     81943
136
James Rosenquist
     81937
137
Graham Sutherland
     81918
138
Jenny Holzer
     81912
139
Nicolas De Staël
     81910
140
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
     81908
141
Walter De Maria
     81907
142
Robert Gober
     81900
143
Thomas Schütte
     81893
144
Gino Severini
     81889
145
Wilfredo Lam
     81875
146
Stuart Davis
     81853
147
Alice Neel
     81846
148
Renato Guttuso
     81845
149
John Chamberlain
     81833
150
Komar And Melamid
     81832
151
Lovis Corinth
     81806
152
Marc Chagall
     81316
153
Dan Flavin
     80678
154
Giorgio De Chirico
     80674
155
Oskar Kokoshka
     80554
156
Maurice Utrillo
     80525
157
Antoni Tàpies
     80495
158
Damien Hirst
     80480
159
Raoul Dufy
     80449
160
Robert Mapplethorpe
     80435
161
Georges Rouault
     77732
162
Rebecca Horn
     77434
163
William Turnbull
     63335
164
Eileen Agar
     63334
165
Thomas Struth
     63332
166
Anna (Grandma) Moses
     63327
167
Rob Scholte
     62865
168
Paul Mccarthy
     62818
169
César
     62816
170
Yoko Ono
     62808
171
Michelangelo Pistoletto
     62793
172
Diego Rivera
     62777
173
Max Weber
     62762
174
Jannis Kounellis
     62756
175
Vladimir Tatlin
     62754
176
Yasumasa Morimura
     62746
177
Piero Manzoni
     62745
178
Saburo Murakami
     62744
179
Sonia Delaunay
     62744
180
Marcel Broodthaers
     62743
181
Niki de Saint Phalle
     62741
182
Jean Tinguely
     62741
183
Kiki Smith
     62741
184
Keith Haring
     62740
185
Joan Mitchell
     62740
186
Larry Clark
     62739
187
Joseph Kosuth
     62737
188
Umberto Boccioni
     62737
189
Karel Appel
     62736
190
Agnes Martin
     62736
191
Pierre Alechinsky
     62735
192
Wayne Thiebaud
     62735
193
Gary Hill
     62735
194
Hans Hartung
     62734
195
Liubov Popova
     62734
196
Eric Gill
     62734
197
Robert Delaunay
     62734
198
A.R. Penck
     62733
199
Mike Kelley
     62732
200
Louise Nevelson
     62732
201
Jack Butler Yeats
     62732
202
Lyonel Feininger
     62732
203
Jiro Yoshihara
     62732
204
Eduardo Chillida
     62731
205
Frank Auerbach
     62731
206
Ben Vautier
     62731
207
Robert Indiana
     62731
208
Pol Bury
     62731
209
Hermann Nitsch
     62731
210
Giuseppe Penone
     62731
211
Anthony Gormley
     62731
212
Christian Schad
     62730
213
On Kawara
     62730
214
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
     62729
215
Douglas Gordon
     62729
216
Leon Golub
     62729
217
Malcolm Morley
     62728
218
L.S. Lowry
     62728
219
Léon Bakst
     62728
220
Ellsworth Kelly
     62728
221
Larry Rivers
     62727
222
James Turrell
     62726
223
Mimmo Rotella
     62726
224
Richard Artschwager
     62725
225
John Baldessari
     62725
226
Tony Cragg
     62725
227
Erich Heckel
     62725
228
Rosemarie Trockel
     62725
229
Judy Chicago
     62725
230
Patrick Heron
     62725
231
Hélio Oiticica
     62725
232
Alfred Kubin
     62724
233
Dorothea Tanning
     62724
234
Patrick Caulfield
     62724
235
Arthur Dove
     62724
236
Max Bill
     62723
237
Robert Mangold
     62723
238
George Wesley Bellows
     62723
239
Jimmie Durham
     62723
240
Léon Spilliaert
     62723
241
Walter Sickert
     62722
242
William Wegman
     62722
243
Anthony Caro
     62722
244
Öyvind Fahlström
     62722
245
Sam Francis
     62722
246
Mark Tobey
     62722
247
Arthur Boyd
     62722
248
Lee Krasner
     62722
249
Katharina Fritsch
     62721
250
Luciano Fabro
     62721
251
Pierre Roy
     62720
252
Julião Sarmento
     62720
253
Meret Oppenheim
     62720
254
David Hammons
     62720
255
Kenneth Noland
     62719
256
Leon Kossoff
     62719
257
Gilberto Zorio
     62719
258
Richard Wilson
     62718
259
Thomas Hart Benton
     62718
260
Julio González
     62716
261
Le Corbusier
     61538
262
Rabindranath Tagore
     61506
263
Charles Ray
     61423
264
George Segal
     61413
265
Juan Muñoz
     61406
266
Chris Burden
     61405
267
Max Liebermann
     61404
268
Giacomo Balla
     61403
269
Franceso Clemente
     61403
270
Jörg Immendorff
     61402
271
David Alfaro Siqueiros
     61401
272
Roberto Matta
     61401
273
Alexander Archipenko
     61401
274
Rachel Whiteread
     61400
275
Marino Marini
     61400
276
Daniel Buren
     61399
277
Per Kirkeby
     61399
278
David Salle
     61398
279
Stanley Spencer
     61398
280
Elisabeth Frink
     61398
281
Wols
     61398
282
Rufino Tamayo
     61398
283
Miroslaw Balka
     61397
284
Robert Morris
     61396
285
Oskar Schlemmer
     61396
286
Hans Haacke
     61396
287
Sidney Nolan
     61396
288
Helen Frankenthaler
     61396
289
Hans Hofmann
     61395
290
Alberto Burri
     61394
291
Cady Noland
     61394
292
Naum Gabo
     61394
293
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
     61393
294
Jacob Lawrence
     61393
295
Morris Louis
     61392
296
Serge Poliakoff
     61392
297
Charles Demuth
     61391
298
Marsden Hartley
     61391
299
Ed and Nancy Kienholz
     61391
300
Jean-Marc Bustamante
     61391
301
Beverly Pepper
     61390
302
Milton Avery
     61389
303
Albert Gliezes
     61389
304
Vito Acconci
     61329
305
Gina Pane
     61137
306
Wolfgang Laib
     61117
307
Daniel Spoerri
     61107
308
Maria-Elena Vieira da Silba
     61075
309
Susan Rothenberg
     61067
310
Alighiero E Boetti
     61066
311
Jiří Kolář
     61064
312
August Macke
     61053
313
Ulay & Abramovic
     61046
314
Henri Michaux
     61045
315
Howard Hodgkin
     61042
316
Richard Tuttle
     61027
317
Jacques Lipchitz
     61024
318
Bryan Organ
     61024
319
Pavel Tchelitchew
     61011
320
Allen Jones
     61011
321
Germaine Richier
     61008
322
Victor Vasarely
     58903
323
Paul Nash
     58816
324
Annette Messager
     58804
325
John Heartfield
     58776
326
Jean Hélion
     58763
327
Vong Phaophanit
     58761
328
Antonin Artaud
     58751
329
Carlo Carrà
     58741
330
Elie Nadelman
     58738
331
Asger Jorn
     51205
332
Adrian Piper
     50994
333
Lawrence Weiner
     50931
334
Kazuo Shiraga
     50898
335
Jana Sterbak
     50896
336
Richard Deacon
     50895
337
Jean-Paul Riopelle
     50893
338
Susan Hiller
     50893
339
Dan Graham
     50882
340
Käthe Kollwitz
     50880
341
Natalia Goncharova
     50878
342
Andy Goldsworthy
     50878
343
Nam June Paik
     50874
344
Reinhard Mucha
     50874
345
Theo Van Doesburg
     50872
346
Miriam Schapiro
     50871
347
Vera Mukhina
     50870
348
Alexei Von Jawlensky
     50869
349
Christian Boltanski
     50869
350
Frantisek Kupka
     50869
351
Juan Davila
     50869
352
Jacob Epstein
     50869
353
Katsura Funakoshi
     50868
354
Richard Long
     50868
355
Jose Clemente Orozco
     50868
356
Arman
     50868
357
John Piper
     50868
358
Victor Burgin
     50868
359
Remedios Varo
     50868
360
Zvi Goldstein
     50868
361
Ana Mendieta
     50867
362
Marisol
     50867
363
Tatsuo Miyajima
     50867
364
Huang Yong Ping
     50867
365
Krzysztof Wodiczko
     50867
366
Mikhail Larionov
     50867
367
Cildo Meireles
     50867
368
Paula Modersohn-Becker
     50867
369
Antoine Bourdelle
     50866
370
Adolph Gottlieb
     50866
371
Marie Laurencin
     50866
372
Giacumo Manzù
     50866
373
Oscar Dominguez
     50866
374
Marc Quinn
     50866
375
Jean Metzinger
     50866
376
Ben Nicholson
     50866
377
Ilya Kabakov
     50866
378
Julian Schnabel
     50865
379
Art & Language
     50865
380
Carolee Schneemann
     50865
381
Peter Halley
     50865
382
Leonora Carrington
     50865
383
Josef Albers
     50864
384
Maurice Prendergast
     50864
385
Lynda Benglis
     50864
386
Tina Modotti
     50864
387
Nicole Eisenman
     50864
388
Fiona Rae
     50864
389
Jessica Stockholder
     50864
390
Willi Baumeister
     50864
391
Adolf Wölfli
     50864
392
Stanley William Hayter
     50864
393
Jan Dibbets
     50863
394
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
     50863
395
Kees Van Dongen
     50863
396
Ben Shahn
     50863
397
Otto Freundlich
     50863
398
Hannah Collins
     50863
399
Sean Scully
     50863
400
Ernst Barlach
     50863
401
Joseph Stella
     50863
402
Eduardo Paolozzi
     50863
403
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
     50862
404
Henri Laurens
     50862
405
Renée Green
     50862
406
Victor Grippo
     50862
407
Victor Pasmore
     50862
408
Mary Kelly
     50862
409
Pablo Gargallo
     50862
410
Jennifer Bartlett
     50862
411
Franciszka Themerson
     50862
412
Helen Chadwick
     50861
413
César Domela
     50861
414
Franz West
     50861
415
Mary Heilman
     50861
416
Ivon Hitchens
     50861
417
Maurice Denis
     50861
418
Percy Wyndham Lewis
     50861
419
Mario Merz
     50861
420
Maria Nordman
     50861
421
David Bomberg
     50861
422
Edward Burra
     50861
423
Massimo Campigli
     50861
424
Willie Doherty
     50861
425
Kay Sage
     50861
426
Joan Brossa
     50861
427
Auguste Herbin
     50861
428
Avital Geva
     50861
429
Chéri Samba
     50861
430
Gwen John
     50861
431
Julian Opie
     50861
432
Jim Dine
     50861
433
Jean Fautrier
     50861
434
Mark Tansey
     50860
435
Hannah Wilke
     50860
436
Grant Wood
     50860
437
Zarina Bhimji
     50860
438
Nancy Spero
     50860
439
Milan Knizak
     50860
440
Matt Mullican
     50860
441
Willie Birch
     50860
442
Kurt Seligmann
     50860