Westcompton
Punat
Portrait of a Young Girl
Garibaldi at Caprera
Las Meninas
Madame Charles Max
Hotchkiss
Richard Emil
engraving
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The Adimari Cassone
Ponderosapark
Man Spinning and Woman Scraping Carrots
Yosemite,Evening from Glacier Point,
Realistic Pink Rose
St Martin is dubbed a Knight,between 131
The Drawing Room at Levens, Cumbria
Recreation by our Gallery
Self Portrait
Peto, John Frederick
The Death of Seneca
Celis Thaxter-s Sitting Room -nn02-
Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Lett
Woman of Cairo at her Door
Morada
The Gloucester Fisherman
Dixonlane-meadowcreek
Bor
The gray background of the figure
The Conspiration of the Bataves
The Crucifixion 6
Skylake
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead Which Were
John Burr
Edmond Duranty-Detail-
Tempietto d
Guitar and fruit dish
Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo
Jalousie au serail -32-
BASCHENIS, Evaristo
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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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