From Fauve colors to Cubist compositions, studio-assisted cut-outs and numerous naked women, few artists have shaped our idea of modernism as much as Henri Matisse. Born on New Year’s Eve 1869 ...

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 ...

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.

French painter Henri Matisse was one of the undisputed masters of 20th-century art, particularly known for his incredible use of colour. You may know Matisse's work but you are probably less ...

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 ...

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.