From Picasso to Sherman, the most exhibited-together artists.
Isn’t it fun to play with data?
We certainly think so.
Our search for new insight this week guided us away from the focus of the solo, instead looking closer at the moments that artists are united. Today we’re looking at the artists who have exhibited together 300 times or more…. That’s a minimum of Three. Hundred.Times.
A large portion of these artists are no longer with us, but their works are still exhibited together posthumously. As in life, their stories continue to be interwoven in death. Perhaps the beauty of data is being able to see the relationships (in both senses of the word) within it so clearly.
We see the lovers Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, the old friends Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and the housemates and co-teachers at Bauhaus, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. There is life behind these numbers and it’s a beautiful thing to behold.
Artists who have exhibited together 300 times or more.
No. of exhibitions together.
Pablo Picasso + Joan Miró: 903Pablo Picasso + Henri Matisse: 869
Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein: 769
Andy Warhol + Robert Rauschenberg: 646
Pablo Picasso + Georges Braque: 619
Pablo Picasso + Fernand Léger: 618
Marc Chagall + Pablo Picasso: 524
Max Ernst + Pablo Picasso: 517
Sigmar Polke + Gerhard Richter: 513
Roy Lichtenstein + Robert Rauschenberg: 503
Pablo Picasso + Paul Klee: 473
Robert Rauschenberg + Jasper Johns: 459
Andy Warhol + Pablo Picasso: 455
Sol LeWitt + Donald Judd: 451
Alberto Giacometti + Pablo Picasso: 450
Andy Warhol + Joseph Beuys: 436
Emil Nolde + Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 431
Max Ernst + Joan Miró: 428
Salvador Dalí + Pablo Picasso: 425
Andy Warhol + Tom Wesselmann: 419
Roy Lichtenstein + Jasper Johns: 417
Wassily Kandinsky + Paul Klee: 416
Andy Warhol + Jasper Johns: 412
Erich Heckel + Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 411
Andy Warhol + Claes Oldenburg: 410
Carl Andre + Sol LeWitt: 408
Wassily Kandinsky + Pablo Picasso: 397
Claes Oldenburg + Roy Lichtenstein: 396
Joan Miró + Henri Matisse: 393
Andy Warhol + Gerhard Richter: 390
Claes Oldenburg + Robert Rauschenberg: 379
Erich Heckel + Emil Nolde: 375
Erich Heckel + Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: 375
Joan Miró + Fernand Léger: 373
Andy Warhol + Ed Ruscha: 371
Henri Matisse + Georges Braque: 370
Salvador Dalí + Joan Miró: 369
Pablo Picasso + Paul Cézanne: 365
Joseph Beuys + Gerhard Richter: 362
Pablo Picasso + Jean Arp: 360
Pablo Picasso + Jean Dubuffet: 357
Andy Warhol + Bruce Nauman: 355
Man Ray + Marcel Duchamp: 353
Joan Miró + Georges Braque: 352
Fernand Léger + Georges Braque: 352
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner + Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: 348
Otto Dix + Max Beckmann: 346
A. R. Penck + Georg Baselitz: 344
Joseph Beuys + Sigmar Polke: 340
Henri Matisse + Fernand Léger: 339
Donald Judd + Dan Flavin: 337
Max Ernst + Jean Arp: 334
Marc Chagall + Joan Miró: 333
Emil Nolde + Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: 331
Andy Warhol + James Rosenquist: 328
Joan Miró + Alexander Calder: 327
Robert Rauschenberg + James Rosenquist: 320
Andy Warhol + Jim Dine: 319
Georg Baselitz + Gerhard Richter: 318
Pablo Picasso + Alexander Calder: 318
Joan Miró + Jean Arp: 318
Markus Lüpertz + Georg Baselitz: 314
Erich Heckel + Max Pechstein: 314
Andy Warhol + Sol LeWitt: 312
Max Beckmann + Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 312
Carl Andre + Donald Judd: 312
Markus Lüpertz + A. R. Penck: 311
Marc Chagall + Henri Matisse: 311
Roy Lichtenstein + James Rosenquist: 311
Sigmar Polke + Georg Baselitz: 310
Alberto Giacometti + Joan Miró: 309
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner + Max Pechstein: 309
Henri Matisse + Paul Cézann: 307
Roy Lichtenstein + Tom Wesselmann: 307
Joseph Beuys + Bruce Nauman: 305
Claes Oldenburg + Jasper Johns: 305
Pablo Picasso + Juan Gris: 304
Andy Warhol + Cindy Sherman: 303
Roy Lichtenstein + Jim Dine: 303
Otto Dix + George Grosz: 302
Salvador Dalí + Max Ernst: 300
As we mentioned, this list is not solely of artists of the past, there are those included who are very much alive and as amazing as ever- Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Georg Baselitz, Carl Andre, Markus Lüpertz, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha still grace us with their talented presence.
These art-legends continue to create and present their incredible work. Though they may not be shows together, there is currently Twin shows of Jasper Johns at the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museums, Gerhard Richter has an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery featuring works made between 1999 and 2001, and earlier this year Cindy Sherman explored an entirely new medium -Tapestry- in her exhibition at Sprüth Magers in LA.
We wonder what other stories or parallels you will see in the data we give you, have fun diving in.
Let’s make history happen.
The Artfacts Team