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St Christopher
Sailor I -35-
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The Orchestra Pit,Old Proctor-s Fifth Av
Doges- Palace, Venice
Laura Alma-Tadema -23-
Ashdown
Felix Ziem
Christus in der Gloriole mit den Heilige
John Liston Byam Shaw
Labille-Guiard, Adelaide
giovanni Bellini
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Tonica
The Usurer
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Delaunay, Robert
Hallandale
Anna du Pire as Granida dh
OOSTERWIJK, Maria van
Garden Scene in Brittany
Woman with a Lute near Window
Stpetebeach
The Patrician juan and His Wife Reveal H
The Beach -nn02-
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White Realistic Rose
Saint Albert the Great af
Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap -
Philip IV as a Hunter
Waterville
Triptych of the Madonna della Misericord
BROUWER, Adriaen
game magic mirror
A Dutch Man-of-war and Various Vessels i
View of Turin near the Royal Palace
The madonna and child
Banquet Scene in a Renaissance Hall
Innri-Njardhvik
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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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