A Girl in the Street,Two Coaches in the
Alexandra, Princess of Wales
Realistic Orange Rose
Aventura
Italian Scene, Composition
Hiiumaa
View of Pickersgill Harbour,Dusky Bay So
Monforte Altarpiece -detail-
Rangely
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Ma
The Duet -05-
primitive reproduction furniture
OSTADE, Adriaen Jansz. van
Allegory of Good Government
Portrait of Anthonie Charles de Liedeker
At the Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes
The Veil
Alexander fights a Monoceros
The Old Bedford
Bigflat
St. Albans
William Henry Shelton
The Death of Actaeon -25-
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Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the
Eglinafb
Mcintyre
Benjamin Hallowell
The Descent from the Cross
Arrival of the French Ambassador in Veni
Les Moulieres
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Louis Joseph Anthonissen
Mother and Child
Jobst Harrich
Infantas Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catali
Apotheosis of St Ursula dfg
Stoke-on-Trent
Broomfield
Dead Christ Supported by Angels
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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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