Soperton
French peasant Woman in the Vineyard
framed house
Holy Family
Carlos de Haes
Sanmartin
Emmonak
Family Portrait
Agony in the Garden dfg
Going North,King-s Cross Station
Still life of a turkey,a bantan,a barn o
Napoleon auf dem Schlachtfeld von Preu-s
Oscarville
The Expansionist
Harbisoncanyon
Spring Water
WILLEBEECK, Petrus
The Holy Family
Mount Adams, Washington
Joseph being Sold to Potiphar
Currier and Ives
full length mirror
Exaltation of the Cross
Mariana
Air iron and Water
Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and
Mattia Preti
Married Couple in a Garden -detail-
Crucifix swg
The Harbor at Lorient
Herrick, Robert
Ludger tom Ring
Grandtower
Reclining Nude with Black Stockings -12-
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I -20-
Governor Peter Stuyvesant
Ashley
BECCAFUMI, Domenico
Lake Annecy
Portrait of a Young Man
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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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