The landscape having cow
Calexico
Fortune Telling
FLORIS, Frans
Zaporozhian Cossacks -sketch- -09-
creating creature dragon elf everyday fa
Grand Canal- Looking South-West f
After the Rain -20-
The Death of General Wolfe
Cologne,the arrival lf a pachet boat-eve
Lady in Red
General Duke Searching for Tracks
Still Life with Lemons,Oranges and Rose
Thun
Regensburg
Resurrection Triptych
La Massana
The Descent from the Cross -05-
Johannes Vermeer -30-
The Composer Cherubini with the Muse of
The Apparition
L-Ensorceleuse -32-
Edward,Prince of Wales
Laundry Maids
Belleprairiecity
Woman Lifting her Skirt
Details of The Death of Hyacinthus
Yellow City -12-
Subiaco
hall mirror
Francesco Simonini
St Cecilia with Two Angels fdg
Sunflowers, Garden at Petit Gennevillier
2006 miss photo world
HELST, Bartholomeus van der
Portrait of Mary Cassatt
Whirlwind of Lovers
MASTER of the Aix-en-Chapel Altarpiece
Portrait of Charles Crowle
Morven
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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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