Armington
Fonte des neiges a l Estaque
Young Woman in Bed
Procession of the Magi -08-
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the
Edward Henry Fahey,RI
stupid sock creature
Coleman
Still Life with Walnuts
A Meal of Oysters -14-
The Haystacks
The Miracle of St Francis Xavier -05-
Magness
The Crossing at Nimwegen
The Duet af
Woman Bathing in a Stream
Aguilar
Cadiz Defended against the English -df01
Windmill, Dangast
Sandalfootcove
Vase of Peonise on a Pedestal -40-
Interior of a Kitchen
Emotion
Female Nude in a Landscape
Esther before Ahasuerus
Arno in Florence.
Potenza
Landscape with trees,two figures on a ro
Squirrel wf
mirror side
Woman Playing a Lute
Van
Golden Autumn,in the Village
abstract acrylic painting
David and Uriah or Ahasuerus,Haman and H
Wardle Arthur
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolutio
The Large Bathers
The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Spades -0
Junepark
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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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