The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella
Peeckelhaering sg
Jardin de Monet a Giverny
Le dejeuner sur l herbe
Massa
Rex
St Jerome in His Study -08-
Henry Keller
Adieu
Winslow Homer
Beebe
Escalon
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Arrival of the English Ambassadors -deta
Marie Leczinska Queen of France wife of
The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra -23-
The evase Bottle of short-necked
Dahlonega
Soldiers resting before a set of ruins
Vanitas Still-Life gd
The Murder of the Duke of Guise -05-
We are
The Feast of the Gods
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Olivier, Woldemar Friedrich
Sentinels of the Coast,Monterey
Recreation by our Gallery
The School of Athens -08-
Posen
Cottonwood-verdevillage
LA FOSSE, Charles de
The Stone Bridge in Rouen,dull weather
Details from Caliph al Ma mun in his bat
Erasmus
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Portrait of a Seated Man wrt
Gypsy with a Mandolin
The Sense of Smell
Auguste
Yelland, William Dabb
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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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