The Romans of the Decadence
Vicor Chocquet
Cornelia
The Last Supper 2
Hughes Taraval
Ucar
Nathaniel Currier
Esther and Mordecai dfg
DUPLESSIS, Joseph Siffrein
Entombment -Pieta-
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Pale
Summer or Ruth and Boas -05-
Tamiami
The Hunt of Diana
Maris, Jacob
Budapest
Vase wtih Lilacs,Daisies and Anemones -n
A View in the Island of Madeira
Details from The Triumph of Marius
Haberle John
Pearce, Charles Sprague
Judith and Holofernes -detail- s
What is
Srbinovo
Cleopatra
Berthoud
The Death of Lucretia kjh
Heerlen
Portrait of Francois Tronchin
Walters Art Gallery,Baltimore
End of Winter
George Rennie
The King Drinks s
Sawmill
Freshwaterbay
abroad boston french impressionism paint
Cyclotron-s shape Moon
Semiramis Building Babylon
The Wreck
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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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