Other major
painters and sculptors drawn to Paris included the Czech
abstract painter Frank Kupka (1871 - 1957), the Cubist Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), the alcoholic genre -
painter Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955), the Surrealist Salvador Dali (1904 - 89), the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), the Russian artists Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967), Mikhail Larionov (1881 - 1964), Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), the Hungarian optical artist Victor Vasarely (1906 - 97), the
leading theorist of Surrealism Andre Breton (1896 - 1966), the
painter Jules Pascin (1885 - 1930), born in Bulgaria of Spanish and Italian stock, and the Russian - French colourist and lyrical abstractionist Nicolas de Stael (1914 - 1955).
Walker is a
leading abstract painter, with works in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and
other museums across the world.