Sunrise with Sea Monsters
RING, Ludger tom, the Younger
Eugene Carriere
Brawley
Sultan Sanjar and the widow
cezanne in in life still studio watercol
The Way hear it is the way we sing it
Bar
Gipsy Madonna r
Portrait of a Woman -33-
A Party of Charlatans in an Italian Land
Wheat Field in Rain -nn04-
Maella, Mariano Salvador
The Three Graces
View of La Crescenza -17-
Terrace at vernon
The Choice of a Model
fence stretcher
Portrait of a Woman 6475
Portrait of a woman -07-
Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo
Loogootee
A Group of Temples at Deogarh,Santal Par
The Beaufort Book of Hours
Pollaiuolo, Piero
Details of Cupid a Captive
Christ and the Women of Samaria
Paolo and Francesca
Triptych
Janos Donat
Savoonga
Profile of a Woman
Bushnell
Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Wil
The Bluidie Tryst
Princeton University Art Museum
View on Catskill Creek
Sinopia of the Coronation of the Virgin
Still-Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Cra
Glaieuls Rouges
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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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