The Milbanke and Melbourne Families rwy
St Martin df
The Holy Well
Santamonica
A Female Saint in Front of a Judge
A Man in Armour
PROVOST, Jan
cabinet moulding
Artist s Garden at Argenteuil
WRIGHT, Joseph
CAMASSEI, Andrea
Girl at Ironing Board
contemporary abstract artist
Putnam
Dixmoor
The Mountain Ford -13-
Ottawa
Seated Woman with a Letter
Barges on a River ag
Study of a Male Nude
Holy Family dfsd
Rembrandt-s Mother as the Biblical Proph
Self-Portrait without a Hat
Augusta
Eustis
Hippolyte Berteaux
Henry Howard The Earl of Surrey
Blountsville
DOMENICO VENEZIANO
Dance Foyer at the Opera
Portrait of a Woman sfet
Bathsheba at Her Bath
Five Dollar Bill
Ruins of the City Walls, near Porta S Pa
VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan
Ecce Homo dfdf
Camille Monet
Parkdale
Landscape in the Roman Campagna sdf
Dedham Lock and Mill
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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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