Don't miss “Matisse—Invitation to the Voyage,” a retrospective that showcases over seventy works chronicling the artist's groundbreaking creative evolution.

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

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 ...

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 ...

But lately, I draw inspiration from an old man with a round tummy who didn’t get out of bed much. I find myself consumed with ...

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 ...

Hélène Leloup (b. 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 ...

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

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!

From Monet and Van Gogh to Picasso and Matisse, masterpieces of this genre highlight its continued influence on the Asian art ...