David Hockney
(9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026)
 

David Hockney was a British painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was known for his vivid, stylised realism and championed figurative work, often in a bold style, during a period when abstract art predominated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney

Portrait of my father
1955
Oil on canvas
51 x 460 cm
Fund David Hockney, London
https://www.thedavidhockneyfoundation.org/chronology/1953

 Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. Although she was a figure associated with interpretations regarding feminism, she did not want to be seen as a "woman artist", she wanted to be seen as an artist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1
1932
Oil on canvas
134.5 x 113.5 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.
https://crystalbridges.org/artworks/2014-35

 Juan Gris
(1887 - 1927)

José Victoriano González-Pérez better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris

The Breakfast
1914
Gouache, oil, and crayon on cut-and-pasted printed paper on canvas with oil and crayon
80.9 x 59.7 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35572

Giorgio Morandi
(1890 - 1964)

Giorgio Morandi was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Morandi

Natura Morta ‘Still life)
1916
Oil on canvas
82.5 x 57.5 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79411?artist_id=4079&page=1&sov_referrer=artist

 <b>Pablo Picasso</b>
 (1881 – 1973)
 

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. His career spanned more than 76 years, from his late teens to his death in 1973. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Still Life with Chair Caning
1979
Oil and waxed canvas on canvas, framed with rope
29 x 37
Musée Picasso Paris
https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/explorer/nature-morte-la-chaise-cannee-mp36

Georges Braque
(1882 - 1963)

Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque

Bottle and Fishes
C. 1910-1912
Oil on canvas
61.9 x 74.9 cm
Tate collection
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/braque-bottle-and-fishes-t00445

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1854)

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

Still Life 
1905
oil on cardboard on wood 
17 x 24 cm
NGA,Washington DC
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/52184-still-life