Madame de Gortzikoff
Mr and Mrs Andrews -nn03-
Auguste
ROELAS, Juan de las
Judith II-Salome- -19-
Scenes from the Life of St Francis -Scen
La Berceuse -nn04-
Waterlilies
The Cup of Death -19-
Poston
La Dogana
Pierre II Duke of Bourbon Presented by S
Gnjilane
On the Boulevards-Dinan-Brittany -46-
The still life of fish
West Wind -44-
Poplars at Giverny
The Fish Market,Hastings -47-
Julius Caesar Ibbetson
The Annunciation with SS.Catherine,Anton
Merrymakers in an Inn ag
Caen
Christ the Redeemer
Jeune fille sur une chaise -38-
effigy mound national monument
An interior with a seated woman holding
Cair
Cupboard fjkr
Winter -25-
Seascape
Voltigeurc -Winner of the Great Matchrac
A Vanitas still life
David -detail- dfg
Portrait of an Unknown Nobleman
Oost, Jacob van the Younger
Funchal,Madeira
The Dream of Constantine
inckney Marcius
Hacienda
John William North,ARA,RWS
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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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