James Seymour The Needlewoman Portrait of Catharina Cornaro, Queen of Primavera St John the Evangelist jj The Abduction of Rebecca The Soothsayer sg Triptych POST, Pieter Jansz Sawyerville artists William Christ in the Garden of Olives Isleofhope-dutchisland Country Pursuits Madonna - Child with St.Joseph and St.Jo Eugene landscape watercolor Stockbridge The Bridge of Grenelle Under Snow Montezuma Roger Dutilleul -39- Philadelphia Art Museum Peach Tree in Bloom Near Sydenham Hill Pres de Sydenham Hill work Landscape with Shepherds fdg COXCIE, Raphael Portrait of a Young Girl fdtd spring scenery Mary Magdalene Altarpiece of the Virgin inx Madame Recamier -22- Portrait of the Postman joseph Roulin -n Still life with Vase,jug,and Platter of Realistic Violet Rose A Forge The Meal Self-Portrait Very Ugly Desian fro a Stage Set
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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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