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The Dream ( French: Le Rêve; occasionally also known as Le Songe or Rêve exotique) is a large oil-on-canvas painting created by Henri Rousseau in 1910, one of more than 25 Rousseau paintings with a jungle theme. His last completed work, it was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 18 March to 1 May 1910, a few months before his ...
20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art. At the beginning of the 20th century, Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre ...
Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt1906, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. This is an incomplete list of works by the French modern artist Henri Matisse(31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954). He is admired for his use of colorand his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a Master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor ...
Henri Matisse. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse ( French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. [1] Matisse is commonly regarded ...
Dante and Beatrice is a painting dated 1883 by the artist Henry Holiday that is on display in the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool, England. It is considered to be Holiday's most important painting. [1] It is executed in oil on canvas, measuring 142.2 centimetres (56 in) by 203.2 centimetres (80 in) and was purchased by the gallery in 1884. [2]
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
The Sleeping Gypsy ( French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. It is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, to which it was donated by Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in 1939.
Luxe, Calme et Volupté is a 1904 oil painting by the French artist Henri Matisse. Both foundational in the oeuvre of Matisse and a pivotal work in the history of art, Luxe, Calme et Volupté is considered the starting point of Fauvism. [1] This painting is a dynamic and vibrant work created early on in his career as a painter. [2]