Sailing boat
Roses and Pansies
Christ Discovered in the Temple
Pieter Janssens
Symbolism
Svendborg
Sweden
Self-Portrait s
Fountain
New york
Igdir
The Worship of Venus
The Adoration of the Golden Calf
Ewavillages
The Carpet Merchant
The Moneylender and his Wife -detail- sg
Details of The Burial of the Sardine
Princess Sophie Troubetskoi, Duchess de
CASTELLO, Valerio
Surrency
Effect of fog at Creil Effet de brouilla
View of the Kremlin
Tragedy
Details of The Music-Party
KONINCK, Philips
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four An
Willowbrook
Fishermen-s Cemetery at Nidden -nn02-
Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
Judgment of Solomon
Grand Canal- from Santa Maria della Cari
SCOREL, Jan van
Madonna with the Child -Madonna with the
Evening in Arcady -13-
Brighton Beach,with colliers
Green Wheat Fields -nn04-
Wedding Procession
A river landscape with ducks and a heron
The Fence La barriere
Naknek
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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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