Kew, The Path to the Main Conservatory
Norco
TheState Lottery Office -nn4-
The Birth of Venus
View of La Crescenza
The Butterfly Chase
St Sebastian sgy
The Battle of Britain
War It Passes,Terrifying,Leaving Despair
Nelsonlagoon
Florin
The Storm
Roseland
Blountstown
Adam and Eve ar
Portrait of a Gentleman sdg
Northern Ireland
The Fortune Teller -05-
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A Lady Writing a Letter qr
Joachim Ulrich Giese
Fiddle and Guitar
Portrait of a Lady
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Hacienda -08-
Ratto delle Sabine
Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen
Moscow,Zubovsky Square
Spring
The Lute Player ghjgy
Queen Charlotte at her Dressing Table -2
A young woman playing a harpsichord to a
Iowa-s corn field
Bournemouth
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Madonna and Child with Infant, St. John
Arispe
Jan miel
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Cbez la Modiste
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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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