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Merry Company in the Open Air1 La Benediction des bles en Artois The Triumph of Bacchus wet wrap stretched Still Life with Musical Instruments, Plu David Garrick Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna The Laughing Cavalier Williford The Nightmare -22- Dejeuner sur l herbe Rexburg old stretched pussy St Mary of Egypt Morning in the Riesengebirge -10- The Nest The Empress Eugenie a la Marie-Antoinett Virgin and Child dfg Egypt Bull Leaping Kedainiai GRAFF, Anton John Adams School of Fontainebleau Madonna and Child with SS.Francis,Charle The Grand Canal from Campo S. Vio toward Portrait of Willem van Heythuysen Bat'umi The Hearing f Charles Collins William Hodges Rest on the Flight to Egypt, detail f Orebro Parrocel, Joseph ANDREA DA MURANO Philipp veit The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes The Landing at Marseilles -05- The Poor Fisherman -09- Finland young girl |
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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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