La Fileuse -41-
Red wheel
Calvary Triptych -detail-
Girl Interrupted at Her Music r
Portrait of Mary Anderson -37-
Primavera-Spring
Archangel Gabriel
Resurrection
FIGINO, Giovanni Ambrogio
The White Horse r
weird wild creature
Knightsen
Landscape with Shepherds and Peasants
On the Beach at Boulogne
Guido da Siena
A Cornfield Bordered by Trees
Summer Night at Aasgaardstrand
Portrait of a Woman
London.
Idaho Falls
Still life of a basket of apples,grapes,
The Last Supper
Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
On the Rocks at Fiskebackskil -nn02
The Philosopher Cratetes kj
Le Dejeuner
The Allegory of Faith -detail- er
Williston
Brown eyes and a Blue Flower
Auburndale
Still-life with Parrot fdg
Sleeping Venus kji
Portrait of Nicolaas van Bambeeck dg
Midday on the Beach
Pearl
Capriccio-River Landscape with a Column,
Nevermore, O Tahiti
The Calling of peter,christ healing the
Factory near Pontoise Usine pres de Pont
Baileyton
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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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