“There are always flowers for those who want to see them,” Henri Matisse said. Even in this newspaper — just glue a skewer between two pieces of colored or painted newspaper and snip it into ...

But not until the recent opening of “Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has any major American exhibit examined just how dramatically this ...

In 1898, Henri Matisse received a silver chocolate pot as a wedding gift. The pot would later star in numerous works by the renowned French artist, including the never-before-exhibited watercolor ...

Henri Matisse: I think that art must not be a disagreeable thing. There is enough unhappiness in life to turn one towards the joy. One should keep the disagreeable, the unhappiness to himself.

The grand colorist Henri Matisse called his last dozen or so years, from 1941 to 1954, his seconde vie. Convalescing after a series of serious illnesses, he lived on the French Riviera surrounded ...

It’s well known that Henri Matisse was a champion of decorative painting — or perhaps I should say, the decorative in painting. His admirers will have in mind the words from his “Notes of a ...

Style Henri Matisse’s Great-Grandson Has Collaborated With Guerlain on a $17,000 Perfume Bottle Inspired by the Celebrated Painter Only 14 limited-edition bottles have been made—each signed ...