How many different versions of cover art has Frank Herbert's Dune had since 1965?

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Frank Herbert's Dune has had more than several printings. How many different versions of cover art have been used in total, to date? Is there a source where they are all shown together?
If it is necessary, it can be restricted to printings in English, but if possible an enumeration of all distinct works of are would be ideal.
It is not necessary to list them all of course, I'm primarily interested in the number itself supported in some way. A link to a source where they can all be seen would be great!

On the left is the one I'd read, on the right is the 1965 first edition hard cover:
 
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user14111 · Answer

P.S This answer does not deserve any upvotes! It is very deficient regarding non-English publications. Namely, in my haste, I only searched under the title "Dune" and neglected to search under the various translated titles, listed on the ISFDB title page for the novel. If you already upvoted, you can retract it now that I've edited my answer.
All the information in this answer is from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
On this page the ISFDB displays the covers of all editions of Dune that it's aware of. This includes many recycled paintings, and also some plain covers with no picture.
An advanced title search with search criteria "Title is exactly dune" and "Title Type is exactly COVERART" retrieved this list of 23 works, which still contains a couple of duplicates (variant titles or forms of the artist's name). After eliminating duplicates I came up with a list of 20 or 21 different works of art by 18 artists, listed below. Images of #10 and #15 were not available; possibly #15 duplicates #12.
Note that this is mainly a list of cover art on English-language editions. However, since I failed to specify "Title Language is exactly English" in my search, it accidentally includes 3 non-English editions (#7, #9, #14) which bear the original title Dune. Many of the titles of translated editions are listed on this ISFDB page.

Henrik Sahlström, date unknown link
John Schoenherr, 1965-01-00 link
John Schoenherr, 1965-03-00 link
John Schoenherr, 1967-00-00 link
Bruce Pennington, 1968-07-00 link
Don Punchatz, 1974-08-00 link
El Cubri, 1975-06-00 link
Vincent Di Fate, 1975-09-00 link
Angus McKie, 1982-10-05 link
Frederic Marvin, 1983-11-00 link
Bryn Barnard, 1984-04-16 link
Gerry Grace, 1988-00-00 link
George Steinmetz, 1990-09-00 link
Dan Alexandru Ionescu, 1992-00-00 link
Gerry Grace, 1999-00-00 link
Grey Thornberry, 2001-00-00 link
Margo Goody, 2007-08-00 link
Sam Weber, 2015-00-00 link
Francis O'Connell, 2015-07-16 link
Alex Trochut, 2016-00-00 link
Matt Griffin, 2019-10-01 link

How many different versions of cover art has Frank Herbert's Dune had since 1965?

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