Cotopaxi
The Millinery Shop
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french impressionism
The Seashore
Bullvalley
Donovan
Marie-Adelaide of France in Turkish Dres
GIAMBONO, Michele
Esther and ahasuerus
sharper image
Maesta
The Holy Family with St Anne
The Madonna and Child Enthroned,with SS.
Dixmoor
GAREMIJN, Jan Antoon
Easy Come, Easy Go
Landscape with Merchants sdfg
Portrait of Katharina von Boyra
The Hotel des Roches Noires at Trouville
The Sacrifice of Flowers
Peaches df
sked stretcher
Head of a Woman
Nimes
Roger Dutilleul -39-
The Martyrdom of St Stephen
The Santa Trinita Madonna
Portrait de Philippe IV en buste -df02-
Louis Pascal
Paradise
Arcadian Hills
Merced River in Yosemite
Portraits dans un Bureau,Nouvelle Orlean
Wolfsberg
photo farme
Playing Dogs -34-
Dance of the Haymakers
The Coronation of the Virgin -nn03-
Haskell
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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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