He was one of Henri Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student Matisse made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

The highest auction record for the artist was set on November 6, 2007 at Christie's in New York, where a group of four paintings, " Les Quatre Saisons " ( the Four Seasons ) sold for $ 14, 601, 000 ( estimate $ 12, 000, 000-$ 18, 000, 000 ).

During his four years in Berlin, Munch sketched out most of the ideas that would comprise his major work, The Frieze of Life, first designed for book illustration but later expressed in paintings.

The Scream exists in four versions: three paintings ( 1893, 1895 and 1910 ) and one lithograph ( 1895 ).

President Roosevelt ’ s Four Freedoms speech inspired a set of four Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell.

* Galatea, the main figure depicted with Pygmalion in Pygmalion and the Image, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

Most of Noland's paintings fall into one of four groups: circles, or targets ( see Beginning illustrated ), chevrons, ( see infobox ), stripes, and shaped canvases.

Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.

On the east side are four paintings depicting major events in the discovery of America.

On the west are four paintings depicting the founding of the United States.

Winter is one concerto in Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, and there are many examples of four paintings all showing the same scene in different seasons.

The Genji Monogatari Emaki, is a late Heian era 12th-century handscroll, consisting of four scrolls, 19 paintings, and 20 sheets of calligraphy.

It seems likely that Zuccarelli already knew Anesi from Rome, or met him in Florence through their common friend Gabburi, whose collection of paintings were devoted almost exclusively to landscape and included five by Anesi, and notably, in light of later developments, four from Marco Ricci.

Since the 1980s, Johns produces paintings at four to five a year, sometimes not at all during a year.

Chardin was one of Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student he made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

The interior, with a nave and four aisles, contains paintings dating to the 11th century and frescoes from the 14th.

* Pygmalion and the Image series, a series of four paintings by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones ( 1878 )

Some scholars have argued that Lisa del Giocondo was the subject of a different portrait, identifying at least four other paintings as the Mona Lisa referred to by Vasari.

Scholarly as well as amateur speculation assigned Lisa's name to at least four different paintings and the sitter's identity to at least ten different people.

As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed, in terms of actual price, by four other paintings: the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $ 135 million, the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $ 138 million in November 2006, and No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for $ 140 million in November 2006 and one painting from The Card Players series by Paul Cezanne sold for a record of more than $ 250million.

Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle, one of the four mythological paintings commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga, is a proto-Baroque work due to its depiction of movement, drama, and diagonal compositional arrangement. Aside from his religious output, Correggio conceived a now-famous set of paintings depicting the Loves of Jupiter as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The room also contains four paintings by Jacopo Palma il Giovane, which are linked with specific events of the Venetian history.

Exemplary of her status, a Mother's Day Feature in True Confessions ( 1947 ) noted how " Grandma Moses remains prouder of her preserves than of her paintings, and proudest of all of her four children, eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock at the home.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

The enormous plates which had held Mr. Jack's four fried eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink.

Within a few years various Du Pont manufactured items were filling the entire requirements of from four to seven of General Motors' eight operating divisions.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

All samplers were operated for a period of two hours except one, which was operated for four hours.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Numbers of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes were counted each year.

It ranged from those with no children, through students in various stages of pregnancy, to one 44-year-old male with four children, three of whom were teenagers.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

Three agreed, but four declined and were suspended.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Those were his only interludes behind bars, although he collected four more charges on his police record in 1921 and 1922, three for burglary and one for robbery.