Listening to the Sphinx
The Study of Nude
Duke Charles of Angouleme
Vue du mont Holyoke,pres de Northampton
Danielsville
Madonna in Glory
Calvary Triptych -detail-
Portrait of Titus -33-
Detail of Crucifixion with Madonna and S
Concow
Madame Drouais
Greenrock
Guitar cup and bottle
Rain,Steam and Speed-The Great Western R
Woman in a Flowered Hat -35-
Venice fish market
Apples and Oranges
Vain Courtship
The Bridge at Argenteuil
Self-Portrait
Winter
Bridgeview
The Three Graces -08-
The Fable of Arachne -Las Hilanderas- -d
Willem Drost
Opp
The Fountain of Youth
Agnolo Bronzino
The Grace -08-
Brittany Boats
ENGELBRECHTSZ., Cornelis
Simpson
Wheat Fields
Portrait du Sculpteur Martinez Montanes
Isafjorour
Boating on the Seine
The Hunt of Diana
Mont Sainte-Victoire,Seen from Les Lauve
Bonnat, LEon
Portrait of an Old Woman
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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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