The Taking of Radicofani
Buttonwood Farm
Cuba
Chidester
Queencreek
The Philosophers of Alexandria sg
Woman Playing the Lute st
Grandlake
Bacchus
The Rialto Bridge d
The Lovesick Woman
Everton
Fishing Boats
Pineview
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, Sai
Boy in a Red Waistcoat
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
Satellitebeach
Madonna and Child with Sts Francis and B
Exotic Landscape
wood frame cartier
Old Westminster -47-
Frankton
Boston Harbor as seen from Constitution
Carterville
Flemish Market and Washing Place sg
Madonna and Child with eight Angels or R
THe Gypsies-Wedding Feast -05-
Landscape with River and Figures -detail
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jacob Reproaching Laban mat
The Poplars
MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder
Iskander Comforting the Dying Dara,from
Road to the The Spaniards,Hampstead 2-9-
Love Victorious
Incense of a New Church
William Callow
Coco Drawing
Girolamo Macchietti
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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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