1. The secrets of successful art collectors, courtesy of the Times of London:

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2. A YouTube video on Impressionist painter Henri Matisse:

As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. Although he was initially labeled as a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing is apparent, in a body of work spanning over a half-century, and won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geranium in 1910, exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million.