Ontario
Marriage a la Mode-Shortly after the Mar
Scottsvalley
Self Portrait with Cigarette jjj
Marcia Painting her Self-Portrait
Still Life with Irises
The Buffoon Pablo de Valladolid -df01-
SS.Vincent,james,and Eustace
The Siesta
Apples Beneath a Tree
Southcoventry
The Fruit Seller
The Piazza della Signoria in Florence
ear stretcher
Young Girl with a Rose -Mme Colonna Roma
A Farmyard near Sablons
Semsevo
Celery Root
Autumn
The Virgin of the Annunciation
Petrus Christus
Children with a Shell
Naplespark
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne -25-
Details of The Monkey -34-
Woman Holding a Balance
St Barnabas Altarpiece
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
Stanley
New York Harbor
The Zouave -nn04-
Sunlight on the Road, Pontoise
Mont Sainte-Victoire
The red house in view
Louis XIV,protecteur de I-Academie Royal
St Sebastian Attended by St Irene
Donna Schuster
Entry into Jerusalem
Classical Figures by a River,a Temple be
St.Cecelia with an Angel
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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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