Facing a creative slump in his later years, Henri ... colour - Why we're fascinated by art fakes Now, a gorgeous, provocative exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows how Matisse broke ...

One reason — one of many — to be interested in Henri Matisse is that he was the severest, the most ruthlessly disciplined of sensualists. In early 1917, when he painted this stunning work in ...

Being the great-grandson of the French artist Henri Matisse can be complicated. Alex Matisse grew up in the Northeastern United States, and being a Matisse meant being immersed in art. It’s what ...

Matisse, for his “Woman with Hat,” a portrait ... dull sugar-beet fields of the north. When Henri was nearly eighteen, the family managed to send him to Paris to study law—which was the ...

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.

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.

Now he’s resurfacing his family roots with the new Matisse Collection, launching online today. It features famous motifs from Henri’s work displayed on dinner plates, dessert plates ...

Facing a creative slump in his later years, Henri Matisse ... one of Matisse's early turns towards a more simplistic approach to painting, using the basic elements of line, colour and form.