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The massacre of the innocents
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Kentacres
Lady Rocksavage
Garden of Delight
Portrait of a Woman
Self Portrait at Saint Remy
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Realistic Yellow Rose
The Hero Faramurz scatters the troops of
St Cecile with the Donator and St Margue
Oaks and Shadows
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Jetty At Trouville
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Charing Cross Bridge
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Bather
Portrait of Tomas de Iriarte
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Christopher Wood
Danapoint
Woman Knitting
Self-Portrait Holding a Roemer
Forest
Andromeda Freed by Perseus
A Girl with a Doll
Costume Ball at the Tuileries Palace
CARON, Antoine
Le massacre de Boston
The Devils Cast Out of Arezzo
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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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