Young Girls at the Seaside -19-
The Grand Canal Seen from Rialto toward
Joseph,Haloed in his tajalli,at his wedd
Apache Fire Signal -43-
Portrait of a Man -330
Protrait of Vera Alekseevna Repina -09
Love-s Jewelled Fetter -23-
Leo Tolstoy
Snow-s housetop
Renaissance
Fall -La Cada-
Portrait of Isabella Brant
The Death of Procris
Branch Hill Pond,Hampstead Heath,with a
Chino
Boulevard
Westsalem
Livomo
A Roman Art Lover -23-
Still-Life stg
filmstrips framed superman
Zacarias Gonzalez Velazquez
By the Seine near Vetheuil
web museum impressionism
Libramont
Jonkoping
Whisperwalk
Kaikroddare
William Holbrook Beard
Aby Altson
Ullswater,early morning
Landscape with Acteon and Diana ag
Romulus and Remus Brought Back by Faustu
Portrait of Francesco I de Medici
Obverse Nude
Poppies at Argenteuil
Sunday Afternoon of the Island of La Gra
Catch as catch can
Bellville
St Matthew.
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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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