Walters Art Gallery,Baltimore
Bacchanal
The Crucifixion with St.Vincent de Paul
The Spring
hardwood moulding
moulding design
The Infant Jesus Distributing Bread to P
Mystical ascension of the Prophet Muhamm
Morning,winter sunshine,frost the Pont-N
Still Life with Salad Greens
BUGIARDINI, Giuliano
The Minusinsk Steppe
Place de Bethune,un jour de marche
Allegory of Fertility -Homage to Pomona-
Still-life with Great Golden Goblet fg
Uniontown
L-Arrivee des mariees -32-
Self Portrait ff
Houses on Cliffs
Bethalto
Portrait of the Artist Gottlieb Bindesh-
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Marriage at Cana -detail- we
Atkins
Woman sewing
The Annunciation to Joachim rrt
Banks
Barnesville
Figure
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt sfgs
Florence View from the Boboli Gardens -0
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis -detail
The Forge of Vulcan
Man with a Cat
The King Drinks sf
Cavalry Battle in front of a Burning Mil
Heads of Six of Hogarth-s Servants
PATENIER, Joachim
Acis and Galatea
The nude female in front of green hangin
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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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