As everyone knows, we have become suspicious of beauty, harmony and wholeness as artistic goals. And so, although Hilary Spurling’s massive two-volume biography has revealed the struggles of Matisse, ...

Some 60 drawings by Henri Matisse went under the hammer at Christie’s on October 8, raising more than $2.5 million to benefit New York art nonprofits. Titled Henri Matisse: Lines of Connection, the ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

Henri Matisse, "The Red Studio" (1911), oil on canvas, 71 1/4 x 7 feet x 2 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund (© 2022 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights ...

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. An ...

Matisse’s The Painter and His Model—in the exhibition devoted to his work at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery in New York—is a candy box of a composition, a hymn to rococo excess. Set in a room in Nice ...

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 ...

How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side by side? With Rita Braver, we take a look: They were born nearly 50 years and an ocean apart. And while French ...

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, ...

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 ...