Mlle.Gachet in Her Garden at Auvers-sur-
california scenery
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Jeanne
Pat Lyon at the Forge
The Bathing Place-Lotus-
Ploce
Harriet Backer
Banks of the Seine
Venus Blindfolding Cupid EASF
Girt interrupted at her music -30-
Mooreland
Portrait of Baroness Stroganova
Ploughland
Sherman
The Knight of the Flowers-Parsifal-
Mandyn, Jan
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire
Portrait of a Woman -05-
St Marrin Dividing his Cloak -08-
Chipley
Tristram and Isolde
Pyatt
Nograd
Sunris,Yosemite Valley
Ophelia
Portrait of Antonius Anselmus, His Wife
Monet Painting
Childhood of Christ
St.Simon the apostle
Kissimmee
BORGIANNI, Orazio
St Matthew -detail- dfg
War It Passes,Terrifying,Leaving Despair
Norcross
The Naming of St. John the Baptist
St Augustine in his Study -36-
The Madonna of the Cherubim sg
Supreme
Argyle
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Henri Matisse:
French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954
Henri Matisse is considered the most important French artist of the 20th century and, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential modernist painters of the last century. Matisse began studying drawing and painting in the 1890s. A student of the masters of Post-Impressionism, Matisse later made a reputation for himself as the leader of a group of painters known as Les Fauves. An ironic label given to them by a critic, the name reflected Matisse's aggressive strokes and bold use of primary colors. In 1905 Matisse gained sudden fame with three paintings, including Woman with the Hat, purchased by the wealthy American ex-patriot Gertrude Stein. Beyond painting, he worked with lithographs and sculpture, and during World War II he did a series of book designs. Later in his career he experimented with paper cutouts and designed decorations for the Dominican chapel in Vence, France. Along with Picasso,
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