Kaisiadorys
Apache Scouts Listening -43-
St Lawrence Distributing the Alms ag
Hanka Zborowska au bougeoir -38-
Jonker Ramp and his Sweetheart
Mars, God of War wet
The Dam with the New Town Hall
Ellaville
Vulcan-s Forge
mask mirror
Grand Forks
Actaea Tje Mu,-j pf the Shore
The Reader
Middelburg Altarpiece
Scenes from the Passion of Christ -detai
St Cecilia -m41-
Ivanic Grad
The Sunny South -nn02-
King Lear,Cordelia-s Farewell Act 1,Scen
A storm off the coast of Brighton
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite
Town
Landscape with a footbridge
The Forge of Vulcan
Fight at Cock Inn
Portrait of Nadezhda zabela-Vrubel.the A
The Madonna of the Carnation
The Cross and the World
Caspar David Friedrich
Guitar in front of the sea
Kraslava
Portrait de Mademoiselle Octavie Sennego
Salome
Napierfield
Humboldthill
Durham
Madwoman 5
Halt of the Brigands
War Spirit at Home
Ferdinand IV, King of Naples
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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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