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Hercules and Omphale -05-
Jesus Carrying the Cross
Sakarya
Herd of Cattle Resting on a Riverbank in
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Fishing at Moonlight ag
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animal care
Detail of Mourning Trinity
Madonna of the Rose Bush
Flemish Kermess fh
Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Va
Jami as Apollonius and the minister Mir
Portrait of William Croes
Kavadarci
Still-life ghuy
JOOS van Wassenhove
Rest in Harvest -26-
The Rest on the Flight to Egypt with Sai
Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and the Funera
The Village- September Morning
Self Portrait -san 05-
Staicele
The Death of Marat
Don Cristobal Suarez de Ribera -df02-
Eaton-s Neck,Long Island
Study of a young woman,half-length,in pr
Hiroshige, Ando
framing shop
The Cutting
photo shop
Cornelis de Vos
Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
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Isolda in Diapers
Vue prise de Riva -11-
The Calf-s Adore
Details of Thomas Cromwell
Portrait of Fam Six -33-
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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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