Senj
Nicotian
Women of Aleigers
Spring Landscape at Giverny
A Blue Wing
Seaport - The Embarkation of St.Ursula
Washerwomen at Pont-Aven
Before the Inn fy
Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple
Anna Dollfus, Baronne de Bourgoing
The Virgin of Carmel ge
Amo
Detail of Landscape with john the Evange
Giovanni di Pietro called lo Spagna
Fortune Telling
Tree and Man-in Front of the Asylum of S
Christ in Heaven with Four Saints and a
Teh Battle of San Romano
The Chilcken Coop
St. Mary Magdalene Nicodemus, and a Serv
Scene of Everyday Life
Norham Castle,Sunrise
Simultaneous Windows on the City
The Seine at the Pont d-lena,Snowy Weath
A landscape with young boys tending thei
Still life of roses,carnations and polya
Mccloud
Piero del Pollaiolo Faith -36-
Pieta
Nederland
Autumn
Boulevard Heloise,Argenteuil
The Quack
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine -08-
The King-s Audience Chamber -25-
St Martin Dividing his Cloak
Canyonlake
A Young Lady
painting with water soluble oil
Shirak
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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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