Madame Valpincon with Chrysanthemums
Portrait of an eighty-three year-old Wom
Annunciation 77
Lochner, Stephan
Tom roberts
The Sheep Meadow, Moonlight
Madonna and Child 6
humanity mirror
Storm,Coast of Belle-Ile
The High Council sdg
The Incredulithy of St Thomas -08-
Srping East Bergholt Common
The Hight Priest Coresus Sacrifices Hims
Village on a Hill sg
Sir Edward Coley Burne-jones,Bart.,ARA,R
Trees on the Hillside at Majorca
Csongrad
The Hunters in the Snwo -08-
Yacht Approaching the Coast.
Jacob Huysmans
Prince Balthasar Carlos with a Dwarf
Elaine
The Water Mill
Jami as Apollonius and the minister Mir
Sculeni
The highway
Oakford
Jamestown
A River landscape with ferries and other
Joppa
Recreation by our Gallery
The Sacrifice of Abraham
Paul Frenzeny
Vew from Fern-Tree Walk,Jamaica
Combing the Hair
Giuseppe Maria Terreni
Saki
An open landscape with a horse and carri
Naknek
Ophelia
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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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