Sir Edward Coley Burne-jones,Bart.,ARA,R
Pauline Sandor, Princess Metternich
Self-Portrait at the Age of about Forty
Monkey Frieze
Boston Harbor
The Departure of St Ursula -08-
Edouard Castres
Woodcrest
Dans Les dunes -32-
Madatov -san 05-
The Resurrection of Lazarus 02
The Family of the Artist jg
Illiopolis
Mask
Judith and Holofernes
Lezhe
Stifterbildnis,Giovanni Tornabuoni
Portrait of Berthe Morisot
Agasse, Jacques-Laurent
Spinners and Weavers -37-
seduction
Lisa with Parasol
The Death of Sapphira -05-
Portrait of Antonio Navagero sg
Srbica
Last Judgement -fragment- inp
Midas and Bacchus
Choate Bridge, Winter
Waikapu
art fairy
Two Strings to her Bow
The Procession of Bacchus
The Esterel Mountains
The Calmady Children
Woman Reading
Nelsonlagoon
The Golden Age -04-
Granitecity
Seated Young Girl
Villa -09-
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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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