Les Cherifas -32-
Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
Namensgebung
The Two Friends
Gridley
one tree hill icon
Thomas Francis Dicksee
Rico
Nude -nn03-
Portrait of Pere Tanguy -nn04-
Rebecca and Eleazer
Charles landseer,R.A.
house portraits
Nouy, Jean Lecomte du
Susanna and the Elders
tolkien tree creature
The House of Dr Gachet in Auvers
Barnesville
art fine printing
Fenwickisland
Indian in the Moonlight -43-
Summer Evening on the Southern Beach -nn
Auburn
Jozer Mehoffer
Miladinovci
Portrait de Mademoiselle Octavie Sennego
Joachim Wtewael
Spring Der Frubling
Dooling
The Painter-s Family
The Children of John Angerstein John Jul
Windmill, Dangast
The Execution of Torrijos and His Compan
Kaktovik
The Visitation -detail-
Rainbow
La Nativite
Still life-Drawing Board,Pipe,Onions and
Bernardo Cavallino
Between Cloth
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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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