Four Apostles -08-
Greek Girls Picking Up Pebbles by the Se
poster
Edwin long,R.A.
Chinar
Colony
Inn Scene ag
Cosimo I de- Medici
View from Hampstead Heath,Looking West
Horatio Greenough,the American Sculptor,
Matrat s Boatyard,Moret-sur-Loing
Ordinary Objects in the Artist-s Creativ
Allegory of Good Government
Fruit and Flowers s
Karl Schuch
Jan Brueghel The Elder
abstract landscape
Virgin and Child with Saints
Les Montagnes Rocheuses,Lander-s Peak
Leon
Johannes vermeer -30-
Broomfield
Nowy Sacz
The Walls of Lucerne -46-
Adoration of the Magi
Sill life of a widgeon,a green woodpecke
Wilmette
The Baleful Head -28-
Fatima
Mary MacIntosh Royall and Elizabeth Roya
queen bed frame
Rigby
The Notch of the White Mountains
Stralsund
William George Richardson
Lady in a Fur Cloak -01-
Aseri
Tete de femme -38-
Nono, Luigi
The Three Graces
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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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