Henri Martin — Head of a Woman | Pointillist Portrait Print

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Henri Martin — Head of a Woman | Pointillist Portrait PrintHenri Martin (18601943) was a French Pointillist and Divisionist painter who became one of the most celebrated muralists and landscape artists of the Third Republic a painter whose sun drenched scenes of the Quercy countryside and figures in dappled light represent French Post Impressionism at its most serene and life affirming. A close colleague of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, he applied the Divisionist technique with a lyrical freedom that gives

Francis Picabia (1879–1953) was a French-Cuban avant-garde artist who moved through Impressionism

particularly a celebrated 17th-century Safavid edition now partly held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

his intensely coloured portraits and Meditation heads — distilled to pure colour and simplified form — represent one of the most distinctive paths through European modernism

in the manner of the Chinese literati

and devotional panels to a level of technical and aesthetic refinement unmatched in any other scribal tradition

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was the defining figure of Fauvism — a movement that replaced tonal modelling with pure

No artist better captured the fin de siècle longing for beauty

gleeful self-contradiction

and dramatic typography

The finest examples are now held at the Aga Khan Museum

and Mughal patronage

His mythological and fantastical imagery defined the aesthetic of an era

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