A Kiss for Baby Anne
Claude Monet Working on his Boat in Arge
The Marquise de Pompadour
Self Portrait
Satyr Mourning over a Nymph
Patriot
Herders resting and watering their anima
Self-Portrait the Frame
Armand guillaumin
A Pompeian Beauty Q
Meeting of the Betrothed Couple -detail-
The Love Song
framed jock print sturges
Neptune and Amphitrite
Mask
Rest on the Flight to Egypt, detail
Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
Portrait of Monsignor Clemente Merlini s
Vinkovci
Lake George
Lute Player5
Levitan, Isaak
Jules Cheret
a Portrait of the Virgin Mary, known as
The Constitution and The Guerriere
Eugenio Lucas y Padilla
Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre-La Butte
Cherryvalley
Still life of a basket of apples,grapes,
Conningtowers-nautiluspark
Park at Asnieres in Spring -nn04-
Ornamental endpiece from a Qur-an
Marchesa Elena Grimaldi
The Stand of Nude
Muddy Alligators
The Road to Calvary -08-
The Flagellants sg
The Sacrifice of Isaac_2
Kirovohrad
The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin -detail-
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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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