The Lagoon from the Fondamenta Nuove ser
Madonna and Child 9
Goethe in the Roman Campagna
Marmion, Simon
L lle de la Cite seen from the Institut,
tracing
A Balneator -23-
Osburn
Nordtrondelag
Pompei
The Sheep Meadow, Moonlight
Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard
Kiel
Miamisprings
The Rest on the Flight to Egypt_1
Harvest Repast
Fisher Girls on the Beach -46-
animals
Portrait of a Man jj
Soldiers Arming Themselves
Capecoral
Herdsmen in a Mountainous Landscape
Romecity
Gordale,Yorkshire -47-
Portrait of Baudouin of Burgundy sg
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Frederick Morgan
Portrait de Berthe Morisot -40-
Talmo
Francis I
Study of Harmonious times
Greersferry
Eduardo Rosales Gallinas
Cizre
Carousing Couple
Cupid and psyche -02-
Koyuk
View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam sf
animal abuse
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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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