Countess A S Stroganova and Her Son -san
Standing Nude -Nude Study- -35-
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North Fork of the Platte Nebraska
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The Last Supper sgu
Leopold, Duke of Brabant
Sacred and Profane Love
The Tree of Life springs from the fount
Details of The Annunciation
Portrait of the Artist-s Wife,Seated -12
A Young Man in a Hat
Portalsworth
Beatrice Hasting in Front of a Door -39-
Autumn in North America
SWANEVELT, Herman van
The Last Supper ugkhk
An Eastern Reminiscence -41-
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Old Bath at Domothanovo
Portrait of the Artist-s Mother
N. M. Polovtsova
Still life with Vegetables and Fruit -nn
Regina Cordium -28-
Subsiding Waters of the Deluge
The Coronation of Queen Victoria -25-
Family Group in a Landscape
Meadowlakes
Canyonday
Icel
HUGUET, Jaume
Bonnat, LEon
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Joseph Tissot
Abraham Lincoln
Ensther before Ahasuerus
Storm in the Mountains
House in Roussillon
Self-Portrait the Frame
Frankfurt
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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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