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Matisse Henri
(1869–1954)

French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Along with Picasso, Matisse is considered one of the two foremost artists of the modern period. His contribution to 20th-century art is inestimably great. 1 Matisse began to study law and, during an illness in 1890, took up painting, thereafter forsaking law entirely. He studied first with the... More...

France, 1991, Louis Aragon