“Jazz” was recognized even in Matisse’s lifetime as a monumental chapter for the artist. A 1948 Philadelphia Museum of Art retrospective devoted an entire room to “Jazz,” and mass-consumer magazines ...

Explore Henri Matisse’s final masterpieces in “Matisse 1941–1954,” a major Paris exhibition at the Grand Palais featuring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an apprentice to a potter, what Alex Matisse discovered shaped him like clay itself. "When I walked in, I knew that this is ...

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 ...