“Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit,” which opened Monday at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, tells several stories, not the least of which is the unusual pairing of the French artist’s Inuit ...

Eclectic, personal, and vibrant, “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts offers you the chance to delve into Henri Matisse’s whimsical world of figures, patterns, and objects. The new ...

Matisse has been so assiduously promoted by generations of critics, curators, and historians as the prophet of the big, bold, knock-your-socks-off decorative canvas that it can come as a wonderful ...

A rare charcoal drawing by French artist Henri Matisse, one of the highlights of Sotheby’s impressionist and modern art evening sale in London on June 19, is estimated to fetch more than £2 million, ...

The artist's most famous works are in museums, and his collectors can be fickle. Recently, his late work has been reassessed. Alvin Langdon Coburn, portrait of Henri Matisse, 1913. Via Wikimedia ...

California painter Richard Diebenkorn remains difficult to pin down even 24 years after his death, but Bay Area museums continue to define and redefine him with dazzling displays of color. For art ...

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 at ...

Ravishing colors, flowing lines, sinuous bodies: Henri Matisse made it all look effortless. But it wasn’t: Throughout his career Matisse wrestled with the fundamentals of painting—he revisited the ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it’s called ...

A pair of Yup'ik masks are displayed at right, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, as curator Sean Mooney shows the very same masks being worn by their creator, an Alaskan Shaman ...

The 1971 painting 'Harlequin Head' by Pablo Picasso was one of the paintings stolen last year from the Netherlands. Romanian authorities are analyzing ashes they found in a stove to see if they are ...