TOP 200 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW
 
 
Welcome to The Times Top 200 Artists of the 20th Century to Now, created in association with the Saatchi Gallery.

Sixteen weeks after we invited you to have your say, the votes are in - all 1,461,523 of them - and we can reveal who you think are the most significant 200 painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists working since 1900.

You can find out more about each artist by clicking on each individual artist's name.

For The Times' article on The Times 200 click here

Artist list Votes
 
1 Pablo Picasso   21587
 
2 Paul Cezanne  21098
 
3 Gustav Klimt  20823
 
4 Claude Monet  20684
 
5 Marcel Duchamp   20647
 
6 Henri Matisse  17096
 
7 Jackson Pollock  17051
 
8 Andy Warhol   17047
 
9 Willem De Kooning  17042
 
10 Piet Mondrian  17028
 
11 Paul Gauguin  17027
 
12 Francis Bacon  17018
 
13 Robert Rauschenberg   16956
 
14 Georges Braque  16788
 
15 Wassily Kandinsky   16055
 
16 Constantin Brancusi   14224
 
17 Kasimir Malevich  13609
 
18 Jasper Johns 12988
 
19 Frida Kahlo 12940
 
20 Martin Kippenberger 12784
 
21 Paul Klee 12750
 
22 Egon Schiele 12696
 
23 Donald Judd 12613
 
24 Bruce Nauman 12517
 
25 Alberto Giacometti 12098
 
26 Salvador Dalí 11496
 
27 Auguste Rodin 8989
 
28 Mark Rothko 8951
 
29 Edward Hopper 8918
 
30 Lucian Freud 8897
 
31 Richard Serra 8858
 
32 Rene Magritte 8837
 
33 David Hockney 8787
 
34 Philip Guston 8786
 
35 Henri Cartier-Bresson 8779
 
36 Pierre Bonnard 8778
 
37 Jean-Michel Basquiat 8746
 
38 Max Ernst 8737
 
39 Diane Arbus 8733
 
40 Georgia O'Keeffe 8714
 
41 Cy Twombly 8708
 
42 Max Beckmann 8690
 
43 Barnett Newman 8643
 
44 Giorgio De Chirico 8462
 
45 Roy Lichtenstein 7441
 
46 Edvard Munch 5080
 
47 Pierre Auguste Renoir 5063
 
48 Man Ray 5050
 
49 Henry Moore 5045
 
50 Cindy Sherman 5041
 
51 Jeff Koons 5028
 
52 Tracey Emin 4961
 
53 Damien Hirst 4960
 
54 Yves Klein 4948
 
55 Henri Rousseau 4944
 
56 Chaim Soutine 4927
 
57 Arshile Gorky 4926
 
58 Amedeo Modigliani 4924
 
59 Umberto Boccioni 4918
 
60 Jean Dubuffet 4910
 
61 Eva Hesse 4908
 
62 Edouard Vuillard 4899
 
63 Carl Andre 4898
 
64 Juan Gris 4898
 
65 Lucio Fontana 4896
 
66 Franz Kline 4894
 
67 David Smith 4842
 
68 Joseph Beuys 4480
 
69 Alexander Calder 3241
 
70 Louise Bourgeois 3240
 
71 Marc Chagall 3224
 
72 Gerhard Richter 3123
 
73 Balthus 3090
 
74 Joan Miro 3087
 
75 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 3084
 
76 Frank Stella 3078
 
77 Georg Baselitz 3048
 
78 Francis Picabia 3046
 
79 Jenny Saville 3034
 
80 Dan Flavin 3024
 
81 Alfred Stieglitz 3017
 
82 Anselm Kiefer 3010
 
83 Matthew Barney 3005
 
84 George Grosz 2990
 
85 Bernd And Hilla Becher 2980
 
86 Sigmar Polke 2966
 
87 Brice Marden 2947
 
88 Maurizio Cattelan 2940
 
89 Sol LeWitt 2926
 
90 Chuck Close 2915
 
91 Edward Weston 2899
 
92 Joseph Cornell 2893
 
93 Karel Appel 2890
 
94 Bridget Riley 2885
 
95 Alexander Archipenko 2884
 
96 Anthony Caro 2879
 
97 Richard Hamilton 2878
 
98 Clyfford Still 2864
 
99 Luc Tuymans 2862
 
100 Claes Oldenburg 2843
 
101 Eduardo Paolozzi 2839
 
102 Frank Auerbach 2836
 
103 Dinos and Jake Chapman 2827
 
104 Marlene Dumas 2827
 
105 Antoni Tapies 2825
 
106 Giorgio Morandi 2824
 
107 Walker Evans 2823
 
108 Nan Goldin 2819
 
109 Robert Frank 2818
 
110 Georges Rouault 2818
 
111 Jean Arp 2817
 
112 August Sander 2809
 
113 James Rosenquist 2808
 
114 Andreas Gursky 2804
 
115 Eugene Atget 2802
 
116 Jeff Wall 2790
 
117 Ellsworth Kelly 2789
 
118 Bill Brandt 2787
 
119 Christo And Jeanne Claude 2782
 
120 Howard Hodgkin 2781
 
121 Josef Albers 2781
 
122 Piero Manzoni 2777
 
123 Agnes Martin 2771
 
124 Anish Kapoor 2768
 
125 L.S. Lowry 2761
 
126 Robert Motherwell 2754
 
127 Robert Delaunay 2747
 
128 Stuart Davis 2742
 
129 Ed Ruscha 2731
 
130 Gilbert & George 2729
 
131 Stanley Spencer 2720
 
132 James Ensor 2719
 
133 Fernand Leger 2718
 
134 Brassai (Gyula Halasz) 2717
 
135 Alexander Rodchenko 2715
 
136 Robert Ryman 2711
 
137 Ad Reinhardt 2709
 
138 Hans Bellmer 2700
 
139 Isa Genzken 2699
 
140 Kees Van Dongen 2698
 
141 Weegee 2698
 
142 Paula Rego 2695
 
143 Thomas Hart Benton 2689
 
144 Hans Hofmann 2684
 
145 Vladimir Tatlin 2679
 
146 Odilon Redon 2653
 
147 George Segal 2619
 
148 Jorg Immendorff 2611
 
149 Robert Smithson 2435
 
150 Peter Doig 2324
 
151 Ed and Nancy Kienholz 2293
 
152 Richard Prince 2266
 
153 Ansel Adams 2262
 
154 Naum Gabo 2256
 
155 Diego Rivera 2239
 
156 Barbara Hepworth 2237
 
157 Nicolas De Stael 2237
 
158 Walter De Maria 2229
 
159 Felix Gonzalez-Torres 2228
 
160 Giacomo Balla 2225
 
161 Ben Nicholson 2221
 
162 Anthony Gormley 2218
 
163 Lyonel Feininger 2216
 
164 Emil Nolde 2213
 
165 Mark Wallinger 2211
 
166 Hermann Nitsch 2209
 
167 Paul Signac 2209
 
168 Jean Tinguely 2209
 
169 Kurt Schwitters 2209
 
170 Grayson Perry 2208
 
171 Julian Schnabel 2208
 
172 Raymond Duchamp-Villon 2208
 
173 Robert Gober 2208
 
174 Duane Hanson 2208
 
175 Richard Diebenkorn 2207
 
176 Alex Katz 2207
 
177 Alighiero E Boetti 2206
 
178 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 2206
 
179 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 2205
 
180 Jacques-Henri Lartigue 2205
 
181 Robert Morris 2205
 
182 Sarah Lucas 2204
 
183 Jannis Kounellis 2204
 
184 Chris Burden 2204
 
185 Otto Dix 2203
 
186 David Bomberg 2203
 
187 Fischli & Weiss 2203
 
188 Augustus John 2203
 
189 Marsden Hartley 2203
 
190 Takashi Murakami 2203
 
191 James Turrell 2202
 
192 Isamu Noguchi 2201
 
193 Robert Mangold 2201
 
194 John Chamberlain 2201
 
195 Charles Demuth 2200
 
196 John Currin 2200
 
197 Alberto Burri 2200
 
198 Arnulf Rainer 2200
 
199 David Salle 2200
 
200 Hiroshi Sugimoto 2199
 

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