Field Artillery in Action
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nude with White Towell -35-
The Violet Wave
Procaccini, Andrea
Village Musicians a
Apples, Pears, and Grapes on the Ground
Portrait of Gabriele Munter
The Price of Love
The Relic of the Holy Cross is offered t
Molena
Nude Woman Combing her Hair
La dame en bleu -11-
Bradbury
Amedee David
clip frames
La Vigilia di Santa Marta f
Portrait of a Man
The Ferry -05-
POLACK, Jan
The Rape of Helene
Nicolae Grigorescu
jean-francois millet
The Birth of Venus
The Balcony
The Artist-s Family
Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec
essential landscape notebook watercolori
A Young Woman Receives Gifts from Venus
Saxon Princesses Sibylla, Emilia and Sid
Bernard, Émile
Rain,Steam and Speed-The Great Western R
Yucaipa
moulding frame
Princeton University Art Museum
Ridgefarm
Doerun
Recreation by our Gallery
St Dominic st
Details of Bestatigung der Ordensregel d
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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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