Summer, Gloucester Harbor
Vermont Lawyer
Pig-Killing astgh
West End Fields,Hampstead,noon
Mercury dg
The astrologer copernicus seated at a ta
CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria
Taking of Christ g
Young Man with a Cap -nn04-
Sonderjylland
encyclopedia impressionism
Cooksville
Farmhouses in a Wheat Field near Arles -
Lady With the Rose-Charlotte Louise Burc
Mechanicsburg
Vitomirica
The Immaculate Conception and Six.Saints
Convent Thoughts
Virgin and Child sdgg
January,from the Da Costa Book of Hours
Winsted
Anna Dollfus, Baronne de Bourgoing
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin s
The Portrait of the Wedding Guest
The Great Fish Market
Portrait of Samuel Ampzing
Rotonda
Jeanne
Lakeinthehills
Sunset : Wheat fields Near Arles
Moses Viewing Promised Land
The Town Crier
Framemica
modonna with Child and an Angel -36-
Fortbragg
Strormy Landscape with Pyramus and Thisb
Knox
Arrival of the French Ambassador in Veni
Self-Portrait The Desperate Man
Portrait of Vsevolod Mamontov
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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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