Henri Matisse — The Heart (Le Coeur) | Papiers Découpés in Lemon Yellow

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Henri Matisse — The Heart (Le Coeur) | Papiers Découpés in Lemon YellowHenri Matisse (18691954) was the defining figure of Fauvism a movement that replaced tonal modelling with pure, expressive colour. Trained under Gustave Moreau in Paris, he spent decades transforming Western painting through portraiture, landscape, still life, and large scale mural commissions. His final decade, spent largely bedridden, produced his celebrated papiers dcoups: compositions cut entirely from painted paper, which he described as "drawing

His Masnavi and Divan-e Shams explore the soul's longing for the divine through metaphors of love

Childe Hassam (1859–1935) was the foremost American Impressionist and one of the founding members of The Ten

and advertisements that made him a household name across the United States

and Cachou Lajaunie remain among the most recognised images of pre-war European visual culture

His Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji — including The Great Wave off Kanagawa — are the defining works of Edo period art and among the most reproduced images in human history

he developed a systematic theory of pictorial form set out in his Pedagogical Sketchbook and Thinking Eye — an approach that saw line

the Kröller-Müller Museum

his garden paintings — particularly his Andalusian patios and formal gardens — are among the most beautiful landscape works of the Symbolist era

Leyendecker (1874–1951) and Edward Penfield (1866–1925) were two of the greatest American illustrators of the early 20th century — artists whose covers for The Saturday Evening Post

A masterful draughtsman and colourist

His bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) and kabuki actor prints are among the most widely collected works of the 20th-century Japanese print revival

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