Gilles
Balatina
Niagara
PYNAS, Jacob
The Brush Harrow -44-
An Angel Awakens the Prophet Elijah
easel
bill james baseball abstract
Rincon
Madonna Enthroned with the Saints q
Saint Albert the Great af
Wrangell
Italian Park A
The Hunt in the Forest aer
Thomas Hill
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Portage Falls on the Genesee
Andrea Bonaiuti
The Meditation on the Passion dsgf
Pont Marie a Paris
Sardiscity
Tivat
Noonday Rest
Georeg frederic watts,O.M.S,R.A.
Luigi Mussini
Aalst
The Large Bathers
A Cascade in Shadow,Drawn on the Spot,ne
The Empress Eugenie Holding Louis Napole
The Farm er
Self-Portrait -nn04-
Impression of village
Bouquet of Daisies
Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels
Visitation jj
Lot and his Daughters dfh
Le Kearsarge a Boulogne -40-
Bellefonte
Porterdale
Atlas
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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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