Maria Luisa of Parma
Still-life
Adoration of the Christ Child
Winter
WRIGHT, Joseph
Sheffield
Village Feast sg
CASTIGLIONE, Giovanni Benedetto
Skating at Carnival
Two Men at Twilight -10-
Water Willow -28-
Capriccio-River Landscape with a Column,
Covilha
Self Portrait -05-
Madonna and Child with the Infant St Joh
Salt Lake City
Arstide Sommati -38-
Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midi
Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospit
abstraction art
Capilla del Milagro,Convent of Descalzas
Odysseus and Nausicaa g
Dunsmuir
The Reconciliation of the Montagues and
Stiil-life with a Pendulum sg
Lunette with Saint John the Evangelist
CHX
A cowherd on the route du Chou,Pontoise
A Man in oriental costume -33-
Claxton
Landscape with Terrace and Cascade
Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt v
The Arab and his Steed
Fortwhite
John Ferneley
The Woman on the side of Wall
She Makes a Grand Light
Bethelheights
Queen Guenevere
Olive Grove
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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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