Classical Still Life, Fruits on Table
Amusing Party in the Open Air s
Death and Maiden -12-
Homosassasprings
Greyhound Catching a Young Wild Boar wr
Havana
In Summer
Natoire, Charles Joseph
People by a Blue Lake
Eastcompton
Still-Life with Cherries and Strawberrie
Weymouth Bay -09-
Aragatsotn
View of the Acropolis,Athens
Two Dancers_j
The Countess Spencer with her Daughter G
Sunrise l
Flight into Egypt
BEERT, Osias
fine art reproductions
The Morning Hour
Keswick,Lake
Sancarlos
Portrait of Madeleine Ingres,nee Chapell
La Gare of St. Lazare
Punishment of the Rebels
Marguerite Gachet at the Piano -nn04-
The Refugees of Parga -22-
The Bathers
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
Prayer on the Rooftops of Cairo
Young man in a Yellow mantle -36-
Execution Without Trial under the Mooris
Summer Garden
Magdalene -detail- fdf
Dumont
Peasant Dance
Whiteriver
Stfrancis
CAMPI, Vincenzo
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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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