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Art'ik Pieta with Saints Giacomo Bassano The Surgeon Crucifixion hhh Mt Tamalpais -42- Moses with the Tablets of the Law Venise -11- Fruit dish and bottle The Oyster Eater -nn02- Sun Sail Course of Empire Dayvalley St Lucy and a Donor Venice- Riva degli Schiavoni ff Portrait of the Artist-s Son,Paul William Rothenstein The Philosophers of Alexandria -detail- jose Madrazo Y Agudo The Woman Taken in Adultery Pierrot Content Dalou,His Wife and His Daughter Albert Moore -23- Portrait of a Man -05- CODAZZI, Viviano Center Venus, Cupide and the Time -Allegory of River Scene,Evening effect -31- Advice to a Young Artist Dancer with Bouquet Belknap The Venetian Lovers Lily Portrait of Antonio Baldinucci The Massacre of the Innocents St.Catherine of Alexandria and an Evange Still-Life Virgin and Child with Saints Han I Hotit The Grand Jatte of Sunday afternoon |
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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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