Vineland
Eisenach
The Two Sisters-Pprtrait
Lament fro Christ Dead,with st jerome,St
Large River Landscape with Horsemen fdg
Stites
Madonna Litta ey
The Post of Woman
Young Woman with Veil
Veroia
A Meal of Oysters -14-
Moses Drawing Water from the Rock f
The Duet hgg
The Crucifixion with the Converted Centu
The Bucintore Returning to the Molo on A
Exaltation of the Cross
artistic background
The Peasant Inn
Mermaids -Whitefish- -20-
Frostproof
Mount Etna from Taormina
by concert drum landscape motorcycle roa
The Family of Sir Balthasar Gerbier -01-
Westlakevillage
L-lle Lacroix,Rouen
BOURSSE, Esaias
Gathering Greens
Train in the Country
George Tirrell
A Horse and Trap on the York Road
Maella, Mariano Salvador
Chu
The Oath of the Horatii
The Martyrdom of St Matthew -detail- ff
Westlafayette
Karpos
The Sheaf-Binder -nn04-
Bischoff, Franz
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Gradsko
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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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