Fernard Leger
Rouen Cathedral
Where do we come from -07-
Towboat
The still life having the key
The Death of General Wolfe
Santa Maria della Carita sdf
The Charlatan and the Peep-Show
The Hireling Shepherd
Woman Holding a Child in her Lap
Entombment -08-
bottle life still
Steep road at Osny
Callaway
Boise Art Museum
Scenes from the Life of St Francis -Scen
Hark The Lark -44-
Federico da Motefeltro,Duke of Urbino,wi
rubber moulding
St.Louis of France and St.Louis of Toulo
Henryk Hector
Femmes au jardin Women in the Garden Fra
Portrait of a Woman vfdg
Lubbock
Giovanna Tornabuoni
The Surrender of Breda -Las Lanzas- -det
Madonna and Child with an Angel
Suburb I -12-
The Sacrifice of Noah f
The Adoration of the Magi and The Crucif
Thadee Caroline Jacquet
Windsor
Triumph of Death
The Forge
Modern Greece,and many a summer flower i
Isabella Coymans sg
GIJBRECHTS, Cornelis
Watchdog
View of the Luxembourg,Chopin Monument
Mount Soratte -17-
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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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