The Grand Canal from Campo S. Vio toward
The milkmaid -30-
River View with the Ponte Rotto sg
Waterlilies
Still life-Vase with Roses -nn040
The Laughing Cavalier
Raffaellino del garbo
The Morning Bath
Windsor Castle,Berkshire -31-
The Fall of the Rebellious Angels
The Lacemaker -detail- qwr
Altarpiece of the Virgin inx
A wooded river landscape with saint john
Head Portrait of the Girl
Portrait of an Ecclesiastic -05
Shaktoolik
Anglers on the Seine at Poissy
Huntsman-s leather bag
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine af
Sycamore
Baptism of Christ af
Horatio Viscount Nelson
Adam and Eve
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Allegory of Vice and Virtue
Tabor
The head of man
Christoph Fugger
Bowl of Peaches
Aqueduct and Lock
Reminiscences of 1865
The Mad Woman of Douai
Mont Sainte-Victoire and Chateau Noir
Tahitian Woman with Children 4
Zeigler
SS.Vincent,james,and Eustace
Helen Allingham,R,W.S
KEIRINCKX, Alexander
Bouquet of Flowers
St.Michael Victorious,known as the Great
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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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