Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman has returned to the capital with a collection of paintings that include Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, and Walt Kuhn.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled Munch's work " degenerate art " ( along with Picasso, Paul Klee, Matisse, Gauguin and many other modern artists ) and removed his 82 works from German museums.

Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were monochromatic, Gris painted with bright harmonious colors in daring, novel combinations in the manner of his friend Matisse.

During the 20th century, a group of celebrated artists, including Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso, rediscovered the largely undeveloped art form of lithography thanks to the Mourlot Studios, also known as Atelier Mourlot, a Parisian printshop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family.

The collection of Moderna Museet holds key pieces of, among others, Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint Phalle, Salvador Dalí, Carolee Schneemann, Henri Matisse och Robert Rauschenberg

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Young painters such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were causing a shock with their rejection of traditional perspective as the means of structuring paintings — a step that none of the impressionists, not even Cézanne, had taken.

A few artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Pierre Bonnard, remained in France and survived.

The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, a modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, surrealism, Joan Miró, cubism, Fauvism, and early modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann and John D. Graham.

Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.

In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works.

As his pupil John Collier wrote, ' it is impossible to reconcile the art of Alma-Tadema with that of Matisse, Gauguin and Picasso.

The Zambaccian Museum, which is situated in the former home of art collector Krikor H. Zambaccian contains works by many well-known Romanian artists as well as international artists such as Paul Cézanne, Eugène Delacroix, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro and Pablo Picasso.

Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso were intrigued and inspired by the stark power and simplicity of styles of those foreign cultures.

Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in primitivism, Iberian sculpture, African art and African tribal masks.

In the 20th century, Picasso and Matisse were among those who acknowledged a debt to the great classicist ; Matisse described him as the first painter " to use pure colours, outlining them without distorting them.

" Pierre Barousse, the Keeper of the Musée Ingres, has written: The case of Ingres is certainly disturbing when one realizes in how many ways a variety of artists claim him as their master, from the most plainly conventional of the nineteenth century such as Cabanel or Bouguereau, to the most revolutionary of our century from Matisse to Picasso.

These comprised Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artwork, including top works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Dufrénoy and Matisse.

Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.

Around April 1906 he met Pablo Picasso, who was 12 years younger than Matisse.

The two became lifelong friends as well as rivals and are often compared ; one key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination.

In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from Baltimore, the Cone sisters Claribel and Etta, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings.

* The Australian Impressionists, including Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School and John Peter Russell a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse as well as Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir and Hugh Ramsay.

Many of Picasso's friends and colleagues, even fellow painters Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, were upset when they saw this painting.

Artists ' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.

" In 1896 Matisse exhibited five paintings in the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, two of which were purchased by the state.

The leaders of the movement were Matisse and André Derain.

Matisse was recognized as a leader of the Fauves, along with André Derain ; the two were friendly rivals, each with his own followers.

The decline of the Fauvist movement after 1906 did nothing to affect the rise of Matisse ; many of his finest works were created between 1906 and 1917, when he was an active part of the great gathering of artistic talent in Montparnasse, even though he did not quite fit in, with his conservative appearance and strict bourgeois work habits.

The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still life, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors.

Contemporaries of Leo and Gertrude, Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle and were a part of the early Saturday evenings at 27 Rue de Fleurus.

Matisse and Picasso were subjects of early essays, later collected and published in Geography and Plays and Portraits and Prayers.

Picasso and Matisse were also among artists invited to come to America but they decided to remain in France.

Moreau became a professor at Paris ' École des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and among his many students were the fauvist painters, Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault.

The site is both a family-friendly place with educational activities for children and also a host of world class professional artwork including art by Picasso, Matisse, and Miró --- the three were highlights of the 2008 opening exhibit of the new gallery space, the Arts Building.

For the first of these events, the walls of the studio were decorated with canvases by Picasso, Matisse, Léger, Modigliani and others.

In the 1940s there were not only few galleries ( The Art of This Century, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Julien Levi Gallery and a few others ) but also few critics who were willing to follow the work of the New York Vanguard.

Over 5, 000 works were seized, including 1, 052 by Nolde, 759 by Heckel, 639 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and 508 by Max Beckmann, as well as smaller numbers of works by such artists as Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, James Ensor, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh.

In 1948 316 works of Impressionist, post-Impressionist and modern art from the collection of the Museum of New Western Art in Moscow, originating mostly from the nationalized collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov and disestablished before the war, were transferred to the Hermitage, including works by Matisse and Picasso.

Organized by his publisher Diogenes Verlag in 1982, the first major exhibition of 63 drawings by Fellini was held in Paris, Brussels, and the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York.

Matisse first visited St. Tropez in 1904.

File: La danse ( I ) by Matisse. jpg | The Dance ( first version ), 1909, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Gertrude's Matisse and Picasso descriptive essays appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's August 1912 edition of Camera Work, a special edition devoted to Picasso and Matisse, and represented her very first publication.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

As president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists ( he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse ) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.

This exhibition was the first to prominently feature Gaugin, Manet, Matisse, and Van Gogh in England and brought their art to the public.

Many first generation abstract expressionists were influenced both by the Cubists ' works ( which they knew from photographs in art reviews and by seeing the works at the 291 Gallery or the Armory Show ), by the European Surrealists, and by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Henri Matisse as well as the Americans Milton Avery, John D. Graham, and Hans Hofmann.

The first five tracks come from artists Gordon Lightfoot, Jackson C. Frank, Matisse / Accardo Quartet, Jeff Alexander and Ted Curson.

In the first half of the 20th century it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans.

The first Matisse to enter an American collection is housed in the Yellow Room.

This gallery presented among the first American exhibitions of ( among others ) Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brâncuşi.

She secured contributions from a wide variety of well-known artists and writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre ( The End of the War ), Robert Lowell, Albert Camus ( Letter to a German Friend, his first appearance in an English-language publication ), Henri Matisse, Weldon Kees, Paul Éluard, Pablo Picasso, René Char, Henri Cartier Bresson, Louis Aragon, Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A.

With the intent to become a writer, Tworkov studied at Columbia University, but after experiencing the paintings by Cézanne and Matisse for the first time in early 1921, he became determined to study art and did so at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League of New York.

It also includes works by Duccio, Fra Angelico, Mantegna, El Greco, Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Guercino, La Tour, Poussin, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Boucher, Gainsborough, Vigée-Lebrun, Friedrich ( the first painting by the artist acquired by a public collection outside of Europe ), Cézanne, Monet, Caillebotte, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso.

The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing ( vague linear spots and / or figurative outline ) can first be seen in the early 20th century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

He won first prize at the exhibition of mural art in 1935 in Paris and rubbed elbows with the most famous artists of the time – Picasso, Matisse, Derain, Dali.

In 1903, the first Salon d ' Automne ( Autumn Salon ) was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon.

In 1911, a controversial Post-Impressionist exhibition took place, including works by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and Van Gogh, this being the first UK exhibition of these artists outside London.