Grand voyageur en quête de lumière, Henri Matisse a sillonné le monde, du Maroc à Tahiti, pour s’en inspirer, loin de tout pittoresque, dans une explosion de couleurs. Portrait de cet immense peintre, ...

Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952) is a skeletal vision of summer. It features only ripples of blue against a tan background, so it’s the viewer who conjures the leaping bodies, the shapes of ...

Henri Matisse works in one of his studios in France (left) in an image from the documentary "Matisse from MoMA and Tate Modern." Right: His cut-out work "Blue Nude II (Nu bleu II)" from 1952. Courtesy ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own making ...

As the gray days and chilly weather of February drag on, you may find yourself longing for sunshine and sea air. Although the curators at the Saint Louis Art Museum can’t quite conjure a salty breeze, ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn’t stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now ...

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 and became one of art history’s most famous figures. His masterpieces, from early Fauvist works through to his cut-outs period which he viewed as “cutting into pure ...

“I have worked for years in order that people might say, ‘It seems so easy to do,’” Henri Matisse once said. If his paintings offer a peek into an insular, layered, and sensual world, his cutouts—now ...

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