Henri Matisse was born in Northern France to a ... lying in the bed next to him in the hospital who was painting Swiss ...

Matisse, for his “Woman with Hat,” a portrait ... Braque, essentially a serious temperament, painted a dozen Fauvist landscapes with trees the color and shape of oranges.

Henri Matisse once wrote ... His early focus was on landscapes and still-life works done in a traditional style. He was greatly influenced by Jean-Simeon Chardin, an expert on still life ...

Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel has recently opened a major exhibition of Henri Matisse ... paper cut-outs, Matisse absorbed different cultures, traditions, and landscapes that are evident ...

While tourists flock to magnetic destinations like Nice and Cannes, these often overlooked small towns offer art, history, ...

“How many artists must fall by the wayside,” mused aging Master Henri Matisse ... follow Picasso’s and Matisse’s lead and do it well. If their geometrized landscapes and still lifes ...

Artful descriptions, much the way a painter might define their craft. In fact it was Henri Matisse who once said, "I don't literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me." ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage.

The traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco’s Museum of Art last week the show had ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.