Fountaincity
Villa at L-Hermitage,Pontoise
Mattieni, Teodoro
Hanamaulu
James Heath
Goldville
Edwaert Collier
Picknell, William Lamb
Diana the Huntress -05-
oil painting technique
GRAFF, Anton
I meeted My Dear Udnie In My Memory
Madonna della Scala
Self Portrait
Wenona
Newportbeach
Brandenburg
Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban L
Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence
St. Sebastian, Martyr
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Sharafuddin Yazdi
Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken a
Bar
Elysian Fields
Crothersville
Houses in Auvers
The Rape of Europa -19-
Montald, Constant
Lilly martin spencer
Take Your Choice
Princess Beatrice
Bather Arranging her Hair
Edmond Duranty
Jefferson
Saint Catherine
The Experiment with the Aipump -22-
Doge on the Bucentoro on Ascension Day
art fine houston museum
Portrait of Cristina Kahlo
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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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