January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...

1927) is one of the art world’s true pioneers, bringing together a spirit of adventure, a detailed anthropological approach and deep knowledge to become one of the foremost specialists in African and ...

Spontaneous, visceral and alive, the cutouts are a magical hybrid-species, the visionary culmination of a lifetime’s mastery of drawing, painting and sculpture. For Matisse, who likened making ...

After becoming disabled from his own cancer surgery, Matisse enjoyed the most productive, creative and revolutionary years of ...

Today, he is back at his drawing and painting. He says he is not an ill man, merely one who has been mutilé, or wounded. Matisse mostly lives in bed and works there, generally in one or another ...

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!

When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was meant to be a major statement—a “masterpiece.” It was the only ...

What is Camille Matisse's most expensive painting? Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,774 USD for Anemones in a bowl, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 1999.

A selection of portraits from some of the biggest names in art is on display at Acquavella Galleries in Palm Beach. "The "Portraiture: From Cassatt to Freud" opened Nov. 20 and runs through Jan. 5 ...

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 ...