Book an appointment with your chiropractor now. After a visit to "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," which opens Sunday at the Baltimore Museum of Art, you may need one. Don't worry. There's no heavy ...

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.

The year 1912 began quite badly for Henri Matisse. Once considered the king of the French avant-garde and Fauvism, he had recently been dethroned by a young Pablo Picasso and his Cubist cohort.

Henri Matisse, Christmas Eve (1952). Photo: MoMA. He would produce more than 250 paper cut-outs, some, like The Swimming Pool, spanning whole walls, others designed for a single sheet of paper.

Here’s a roundup of pieces, including reviews of past shows, that trace the life and career of the giant of modernism. When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des ...

All works by Matisse, Derain, and Kahlo—who died in 1954—are now in the public domain in the United States and countries where the works of individual authorship generally shed their ...