The Piazzetta- Looking North, the Campan
The Bacino di S Marco on Ascension Day -
Children Sat Down in the House Door
Stockbridge
The Vegetable Merchant
The Adoration of the Shepherds -05-
Kachemak
Diane de Potiers
Texel
The Holy Family x
The Nativity of Cardinal Jean Rolin
The Orgy f
A Kitchen still life of utensils and fru
Madonna and Child
The Infant St Ambrose-s Mirache of the B
Dressed Monkey Renoir-s Painting, -- Mon
Vestjaelland
Look down from sixth floor
The woman and the Mouse
Stanne
Pellcity
Alfonso I d'Este
Small Triptych -central panel- ssf
MEYTENS, Martin van
KONINCK, Salomon
Portrait of a Young Woman
El Dorado
Scene from Tahitian Life
Mattew Ridley Corbet,ARA
Paznan
The Hindu king Dabshalim visits Bidpay t
Ruskin
The French Republic
Titus f
Taormina
Cyclotron-s shape Moon
Sleep woman
Mater Dolorosa -with outstretched hands-
Spring Landscape at Giverny
Shipping off Scarborough -37-
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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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