The Usual Place
The Forge
art show
Sideboard
Thayer
Ocnita
Woman at her Bath
The Nativity with Saints Francis and Law
Bonaguida, Pacino di
Hydaburg
Artist s Garden at Vetheuil
Eastfork
The Orchestra of the Opera
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Charles Cottet
Goethe in the Roman Campagna
painting stretcher
Chaim Soutine
fierce creature
Varniai
Karfovac
Westminster -nn02-
Sheldonpoint
Ramsey
Belknap
Copperopolis
Karl Nordstrom
The Gulf Stream
Still lifes of Grapes,figs,apples,pears,
Cannes
Queen Maria Theresia g
Minerva in her Study -33-
Laundry Maids
Greyhound Catching a Young Wild Boar wr
The Pleasures of the Ball
Landscape with River
Rollinghillsestates
The Panciatichi Holy Family
The Canal du Loing at Moret
Nicholaes Berchem
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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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