The Birth of Venus fg
Portrait of Maurits Huygens
Miletino
Lisman
William Griffith
Portana, Vicente Lopez
A New Generation
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The Falls of Tequendama
Christ as the Man of Sorrows
Isolde
Venus at a Mirror
Seated Pink Nude -35-
Sacra Conversazione
The Trininty with Saints
Long live of life
The Village, Auvers-sur-Oise
Estber before Abasuerus -01-
Modern Greece,and many a summer flower i
Redfield
Still-Life with Pygmy Parrot dfg
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Daphnis and Chloe
Daniele Da Volterra
Deventer
water colors
BELLANGE, Jacques
WILLAERTS, Adam
Angels
Woman with a Black Boa
Joos van craesbeck
Sharpsburg
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Nice
Rossville
The Toilet of Venus
Gottlieb Schick
Westsacramento
BREKELENKAM, Quiringh van
The Knight of the Flowers-Parsifal-
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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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