On the Beach,Howth
Madonna and Child, St Catherine and the
Frederick Walker,ARA,RWS
Man Writing by an Easel
Two Frigates -17-
Hydaburg
A river landscape with flgures unloading
The House
hand mirror
The Deposition -08-
Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Backg
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bloomfield new oil painting york
Rest During the Flight into Egypt
St Dominic sdg
Read-headed Youth Holding a Drawing
canine reproduction
Leon Comerre
Fruit and Vegetable Seller
Fire at Sea
Washingtonpark
Woman Peeling Apples sg
Vittoria Caldoni
Portrait of Antonio Cardinal Pallavicini
Women of Algiers -09-
The Penance of St. Jerome
Natural Bridge,Virginia
Francois Bonvin
Rest in Harvest -26-
Southvenice
View of Saint-Cloud from the Heights of
In the Garden ff
The Pavillion Ariadn in the Medici Garde
Symphony in Grey and Green
Musical Society
Battle between The Monitor and Merrimac
The Entombment fg
Wersaw
Today and Past
On the Turf Bench -nn02-
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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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