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Brown Girl
View of Malakoff
The Tooth Puller g
The head of man
Garden in Aranjuez
View of Naples uit
The Martydom of St.Sebastian
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Footballer
The Virgin -20-
Morie-Adelaide of France Dressed in Turk
Portrait of the Artist Konstantin Somov
The Love Conquerer
Musee du Louvre
The Battle of Britian, August to October
Surprise
blow moulding
Wels
A Bacchante
Walk on the Beach
Marianne Stokes
Madonna and Child Enthroned among Angels
Still-Life st
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Landscape d
Sixtus IV,his Nephews and his Librarian
Weeks Lord-Edwin
Frederic Leighton,Daedalus and Icarus -2
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Wave
Herisau
she creature
View of Naples from the Heights of Vesuv
Sir Nigel Sustains England-s Honor in th
A Tulip, Carnations and Morning Glory in
Willem Buytewech
Birch, Thomas
designer
art work reproduction print
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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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