american landscape
Portrait of a man,hean and shoulders,wea
The Vallery of the Mawddach Watercolour
The Triumph of st Thomas Aquinas -05-
Allegory of Painting and Sculpture sdg
Still Life 001
Orangepark
claude monet impressionism painting
Saints John the Evangelist and Francis
Portrait of a Woman s54
The Fountain of Youth -detail- 215
Lord Aldeburgh Reviewing Troops
David and Uriah or Ahasuerus,Haman and H
The studio party
PESNE, Antoine
Rose Caryatid with Blue Border -39-
Madonna with Blessing Child 23ru
Micheletto da Cotignola Engages in Battl
Robinsafb
Diana and Actaeon
The Music Lesson -30-
Portrait of a Woman sdg
Symphony in White 2
Capriccio con i cavalli della basilica p
Lady with a Mandolin
VELDE, Adriaen van de
The Spirit of Samuel Called up before Sa
Ninotsminda
Lorenzo Veneziano
Honorine Platzer (Woman with Gloves)
Allegorical Figure of Grammar sg
Luncheon on the Grass
snow scenery
The Madonna and Child with Saints -detai
landscape material
large mirror wall
Timur enthroned and holding the white ke
The Alchemist
Li Ti
Crystallake
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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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