Morning in the Riesengebirge -10-
Christ and the Women of Samaria
Italian Landscape with Draughtsman
Chalk Cliffs on Rugen
LA TOUR, Georges de
Higganum
Rainstorm over the sea
Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe
The Savate State
Still Life of Flowers
Count G I Chernyshev Holding a Mask -05-
Helel Allingham,RWS
Branch Hill Pond,Hampstead
Martyrdom of St Lucy -predella 5- dg
sock creature
Portrait of Mona Lisa,La Gioconda -05-
Spring Sale at Bendel-s
Rubens Peale with a Geranium
Arithmetic Composition
contemporary abstract algebra
Portrait of the Artist-s Mother
ASSERETO, Gioachino
Andromeda and the Monster
Drag the boat
Bar Room
A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph
Return from Fishing Towing the Bark
Egon Schiele
Family Portrait
Death of Actaeon jhfy
The Mawddach Valley and Cader Idris
Portrait of the Brothers de Villers
Flowingwells
Buckingham
Still-Life of Flowers and Fruits
Spaulding
Announcement of Death to St Fina sdg
The Fight in the Forest
Through the Orchard
Pale
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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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