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The Birth of Venus -36-
Willem van Heythuysen af
Philip IV on Horseback -df01-
Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap -
William Wilhelm List
View of the Molo towards the Santa Maria
The Battle of For Rock Val d Aouste,Pied
Church
Self-Portrait in Fancy Dress
Pasternak, Leonid
The Grand Canal with the Fishmarket sg
Roselle
Boy with a Spinning top -08-
Marriage of the Virgin af
Pervomays'k
The Artist-s Bedroom at Arles -12-
The Breithorn,Seen from Zermatt
Garner
Boswell
Niagara
Saints Michael and Francis
Girls Putting Flowers in their Hats
Narcissus
Recreation by our Gallery
Leavenworth
Madonna with Child 705
flower fruit in oil painting sumptuous v
Charles-Jerome, Comte Pozzo di Borgo
HERREYNS, Willem
Recreation by our Gallery
A still life of peaches and plums in a g
Self-Portrait -nn04-
Recreation by our Gallery
Wekivasprings
Claudio and Isabella
Bauska
A landscape with the rest on the Flight
The Fire
Emile Claus
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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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