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Caffe, Nino

Born in 1909, Nino Caffe grew up studying the arts in his native, northern Italy. At an early age he joined the company of another...

Calogero, Jan

Jan Calogero was born in Catania, Sicily, on August 20th, 1922, of a family of workers of modest means. He lost his father when he...

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Ceramano, Charles Ferdinand

Charles-Ferdinand Ceramano, of Belgian descent, devoted himself to both landscape and animal painting under his teacher Charles Jacque. He was the last of the group...

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Chagall, Marc

Born in Vitebsk, Russia in 1887, Chagall moved to Paris in 1910 where he was influenced by the Fauvists and Cubism. He went on to...

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Chailloux, Robert

Born in Paris in 1913, amidst a new revolution, both socially and artistically, most of his art education was cultivated in the Ecole Speciale de...

Cohen, Solomon

Solomon Cohen was born on September 6, 1958 in North Africa into a family of Orthodox Jewish heritage with Russian and Spanish ancestry. His father...

Corbellini, Luigi

Painter and sculptor, born in Placenza, Italy. Corbelini worked from his Paris studio painting still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He exhibited at the Salon de...

Cortes, Antonio

Antonio Cortes, an artist in the circle of Barbizon open air painters. Born in Seville in 1827, Antonio Cortes came to France in 1855 for...

Cortès, Edouard

Edouard Cortes, of French and Spanish ancestry, was born in Lagny-sur-Marne, a few miles east of Paris on August 8, 1882. As an adolescent, he...

Crotto

Paul Crotto was born on 24th October 1922 in New York. He studied at the Art Student League at New York, in Peking and received...

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Cuevas, Jose Luis

Jose Luis Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1934. One of his earliest memories was of a collection of puppets that hung from his...