Conway Castle -47-
The Rhinoceros
The Linley Sisters
National Palace Museum
Still-life with Musical Instruments
The Print Collectiors -nn03-
Viviano Codazzi
Venus and Mars
Portrait of a Man tq
Landscape in Greece
ZUCCHI, Jacopo
Seated Clown
The fem hold the bottle
COYPEL, Charles-Antoine
Portrait of a Man w7
Walsh
My Grandparent,My Parent and i
November
Hercules Vanquishing the Hydra -05-
St Jerome in his Study
Largest White Billed Woodpecker
The Afterglow in Egypt -32-
Setting Sun
monet earring
The Alba Madonna
Fall of the Rebellious Angels gjh
The Stop at the Country Inn
Yosemite
The Flood
Self-Portrait sfgh
Portrait gfdghd
Vue du mont Holyoke,pres de Northampton
The Baptism of Christ -detail- sg
Self-Portrait with a Japanese Print -nn0
RIBALTA, Francisco
St.Jerome in Penitence
Smoke of a .45
Durakovac
The Artist-s Mother 1
Hannah Palmer
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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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