Triptych yurt
The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise
Poppies
The Village
To Harvest
Allegory of Death
Still Life
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Avenue in Schloss Kammer Park -20-
The Carmel Mission -42-
Saul and David
George Hendrik Breitner
Sleeping Venus dhh
Watching the Breakers
Edesa
The Entombment of Christ
The Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Riverbank,Petie Andely
Glennallen
Au bord de la mer
Kaikroddare
Lute Player
Reform
Saxon Princesses Sibylla, Emilia and Sid
Vase wtih Daisies and Anemones -nn04-
Westsalem
Dynedor Hill,Herefordshire,Harvest field
View of Montsouris Park
Henri Cordier
Alden J Weir
Charles X in his Coronation Robes -04-
Le Pont de L-Europe,Gare Saint-Lazare
The Archduke Leopold's Gallery
The Potato Eaters -nn04-
The Recovery of Bahia in Brazil
William Westall
John Frederichk Lewis RA
The Miracle of the Roses
Susanna and The Elders
Pollard
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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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