Portrait of Mr and Mrs.D.L.Clare -37-
Faggot Carriers
Creation of the Animals
The Two Coaches shr
Debar
RIBALTA, Francisco
Juan Antonio Escalante
Stockbridge,Mass.
The Annunciation 6
Lady Colin Campbell
Mornex -11-
Otho,with JOhn Larkin up
The Card Players
Portrait of a Woman et
View of the Colosseum from the Farnese G
The Daughter-s Portrait RT
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The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes -de
Assumption of the Virgin,details with Ev
Party Scene with Music
Bela III Founding the Cistercian Monaste
The Household Gods
Silas
Equestrian portrait of Guidoriccio da Fo
Tine onquered by Youth and Beauty
drawing landscape
A Village Celebration
The Knight, the Young Girl, and Death dd
The Grand Canal with San Giorgio Maggior
Corner of the Garden at Mont Geron
The Kiss
The Clowness Cha u kao
Bathers on the Grass
The Olive Grove
Edge of a wood -nn04-
Sketch of Santa Sofia -18-
A Gypsy
The Virgin and Child in a Rose Arbour
La Peche
Buckner
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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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