Clutier
Suckling Mother and Maid s
View of Pillnitz Castle from a Window -2
Details of Primavera-Spring
Seacoast
Iola
The Mystical Marriage of St.Catherine
The Lieutenency, Hornfleur
Countess A A Chernysheva -san 05-
Lewis whith harris
Vanitas Still-Life gd
van gogh ear
Carl Haag
china
John,Henry and Francis Grant at Melton
Aventura
View through the trees in the Park of Pi
The Balcony -06-
Day Dreams
IFLA
The Artist, Emile Bernard
Portrait of a Man -05-
Paul Huet
The Maillaun Ladies
Argos
Sudden intrusion
BOUTS, Dieric the Younger
precious image
New Bedford
Self Portrait vvv
Ellettsville
Here Playing the role of a visting docto
Storm Rising at Sea
Bathers
On the Turf Bench -nn02-
The Judgment of Paris -27-
Lot and His Daughters dh
The Fire
Qays,the future Majnun,begins as a scrib
Bolzano
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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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