Lady Caroline Capel Holding her Daughter
Bitlis
The Meagre Company -detail- wg
Martha and Mary Magdalene gg
Self Portrait fff
long island
Henryk hector
Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury
The Stealing of the Dead Body of St Mark
Cleopatra with the Asp
Narjot, Ernest
Woodridge
Sunset at Sea
The Great Colvary
Neeffs, Peter the Elder
The Deposition from the Cross -05-
Nature morte,pommes,bouteille et dossier
The Femish Bride -33-
Shengjin
The Enchanted Garden
animal in translation using the mystery
Summer -10-
Southsarasota
Weaver Facing Left with Spinning Wheel -
Trouville
The Emigrant-s Departure
Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Armchair
Maeten Soolmans
Hans Holbein
Montenegro
Birth of the Virgin
Ornamental endpiece from a Qur-an
Keswick,Lake
Scenes from the Life of St James
Master of the observanza Triptych
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi -detail
Carlota Joquina, Infanta of Spain and Qu
Francesco Guardi
The Annunciation
Benld
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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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