Portrait of a Woman dfg
Ola
wood gallery frame
Petrov-Vodkin, Kozma
Savannah Pink or Sabatia Imperial Moth
cafe life penguin still
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Pembroke
CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista
Louis XIV and his Heirs
The Nest
The Connoisseur in the Artist s Studio
Iowa-s Product
Asburylake
The Finding of Moses -nn03-
Beckemeyer
Millersburg
BRUSASORZI, Domenico
Lecce
Birth of the Virgin fg
A View of the Two Lakes and Mountain Hou
Kuressaare
HUBER, Wolf
Adoration of the Lamb -detail-
Vase with Flowers sg
Wadley
The Painter in his Studio
A Peasant Dance
stretched car
Paris
Herbert Draper
impossible creature
Selbstbildnis mit Isabella Brant in der
GRIMMER, Jacob
The Last Supper dh
Nicholas Kratzer -05-
Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand
Charleston museum
Olive Grove
Vik
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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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