Ramygala
Flomaton
Lamirada
The Holy Family with the Infant St. John
Portrait of Georges Wille ge
View of Amsterdam -detail- h
Dona Isabel de Porcel.
Victoria
Ennui
Elena Povolozky -39-
Edith Hayllar
Lenox
The Moneychanger -detail- dry
Coronado
Midsummer Eve
The rods of house
The Repose of Venus
La Colline des Pauvres
Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault
The Courtyard of Italy
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
The Entombent of Christ
Details of the Blinding of Samson
The Abduction of Rebecca
Walter Granville Smith
The Mocking of Christ
Marriage a la Mode 4
bridgette monet
Plate of Mix Colors
Jean-Leon Gerome,The Death of Caesar -23
Apples, Hat, and Tree
Tanaquil, Wife of Lucomo
Otocac
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Wooded landscape at L-Hermitage,Pontoise
Self-Portrait dfgd
stretchers
Adoration of the Child
Woman with a Lute near Window
Bather
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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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