Henri Matisse's love of painting began when he contracted appendicitis and was on bed rest. After studying in St. Tropez, he joined a group called the “Fauves” who used color in a very non-traditional ...

The Matisse Chapel, located in the French town of Vence (in the southeast of the country), will be classified as national ...

When French artist Édouard Manet completed his renowned painting Olympia in 1863, it marked a significant turning point in the history of art. From Monet and Van Gogh to Picasso and Matisse, ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...

Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of his life — he saved the best for last, enjoying the most ...

Matisse once said, “Painting the human figure is the best way for me to express what I might call my own particular religious feeling about life.” If only traditional religion were that free!

Here, the nasturtiums are in front of MoMA's painting, Dance I, which he kept on the back wall of his studio for 30 years. Writer, Claire Messud: When I think of Matisse, I think of his dancers, I ...

13.87 x 11.12 in. (35.2 x 28.2 cm.) ...

Curator, Ann Temkin: The Blue Window is painted from the bedroom of Henri and Amélie Matisse. And what you see in the distance is the rooftop of the studio. This is actually the only painting in ...

In countries that abide by the “life plus 70 years” copyright term, such as the United Kingdom and parts of Europe and South America, the works of celebrated French artist Henri Matisse ...

I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...

UCCA director Phil Tinari discussed the changing museum landscape in China, with an especially close look at the rise of new ...