Charles-Jerome, Comte Pozzo di Borgo
Lot and His Daughters -05-
Modern Greece,and many a summer flower i
Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus
Chestnut Trees at the jas de Bouffan in
Terrace of the Cafe on Montmartre
Madonna of the Cherries
Cristoph Wilibald von Gluck at the Spine
Portrait of an Old Jewish Man
The Artist-s Family
Portrait d-un Pretre -df02-
Jeremias de Dekker
Pink Peach Tree in Blossom -nn04-
Newpekin
SCHIAVONE, Andrea
Dewitt
Double Portrait of a Brother and Sister
Dessert Still Life 1
Monte Carlo seen from Roquebrune
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
Coronation of King Roger
Hirst, Claude Raguet
Homecroft
Naked Woman
Adoration of the Christ Child with St.Ba
Palmbay
Portrait of Cardinal Agucchi
The Plaster Kiln -05-
The monkey and i
Old House and Garden at East Hampton, Lo
Triumph of Curch over Fury,Discord,and H
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Abbott Handerson Thayer
The Muses in the Sacred Wood
Equestrian Portrait of Pieter Schout s
The Seine Bridge at Asnieres -nn04-
Falls of Kaaterskill -13-
Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin
Pineview
Head of a Young Peasant in a Peaken Cap
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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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