Autoportrait a la palette Still life wall Painting from the House View on the Capitoline Hill,Rome -17- Barberspointhousing Coventry Figure Woodland Road Solomon,with the Queen of Sheba and thei Gletsch John the Baptist's Head Portrait of Gabrielle de Roche-chouart - Madonna Enthroned with St Lawrence and S african art OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste Still-life sf Apostles Peter and Paul Madonna della Cesta myspace comment with image Helen of Troy Dancer at the Photographer's Interior with a portrait of Fohn Sheepsh Vilas The Mass of St.Gregory Victor Mottez Cizre Death Crucifixion qwr Marguerite The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Foan Deyman -33 Church at Auvers John the Baptist and st mary magdalen wi Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi g oil lamp reproduction Small Tuscan Road -39- Still life of roses,tulips,chyrsanthemum Arriba Excursion of the Harem Two Hummingbirds Longwood Garden Scene
|
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,
|