With this new painting Matisse was stepping on Picasso’s toes ... Some of these were huge, others small enough for him to manage from bed. When a Dominican priest invited him in 1947 to design ...

It was painting itself that seduced him over ... Energy pulses between the lines of the letters Matisse wrote home from the small hotel room in Nice where he lived, slept and worked, having ...

Hitler visited the exhibition, and apparently acquired a small sculpture by Aristide Maillol. I have no information on any other purchase of French art by Hitler, or by Goering, an aficionado of ...

The painting, built meticulously from small, distinct dots of colour ... this work reflects Matisse’s temporary engagement with Pointillism. The harbour scene is closely captured with vibrant ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse has become hugely popular among a certain type of 20- and 30-something woman. But what’s behind the revival? Stylist’s Moya Crockett (a self-professed “M ...

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris have just opened a new show dedicated to Matisse's relationship with his eldest daughter Marguerite.

If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable ... “Even the drawings—there are big ones, some done with marker pens, small things done really quickly in a sketchbook ...

The International Exhibition of Modern Art ... and the burning of Matisse in effigy by the students of the Institute. After a final stop in Boston, where it attracts small crowds and ignites ...