The Door panels for the Durand Ruel Draw
Campus
Wienczyslawa Barczewska, Madame de Jurje
Die drei Frauen in der Kirche
Two Horses,Red and Blue -34-
The Reverend Thomas Hiscox
St.Clement Striking the Rock below the H
Blonde Odalisque
Primavera
elvis image performance
Slate Quarries
Nathaniel Hone
Portrait of Emaile Zola
Fruit Stand, Coney Island
SCHRIECK, Otto Marseus van
The Vision of Ezekiel
St Nicholas Resurrects Three Murdered Yo
Maynard, George Willoughby
The Letter -08-
A Sibyl ag
John Trumbull
Romanian
Mystical Nativity fg
Giorification of the Rule of Urban Vii -
The Road to Louveciennes
Elfers
Interno della rotonda di Ranelagh -Londr
View of Ironbridge
The Nightmatch -33-
Christ Crucified
Rubens with His First Wife, Isabella Bra
Ashdown
Union
Portrait of a Married Couple dfh
Judith and Holofernes ar
Raahe
Poster Advetising Sterilized Milk
Bathers -09-
Recreation by our Gallery
Boat and Yellow Hills
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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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