As winter gave way to spring, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 settled in at the Art Institute of Chicago for a three-month stay. The city immediately embraced the exhibit: its gala grand opening ...

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 ...

Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952) is a skeletal vision of summer. It features only ripples of blue against a tan background, so it’s the viewer who conjures the leaping bodies, the shapes of ...

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. Matisse ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Of all the great masterpieces of early 20th-century art, Henri Matisse ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes' features iconic works from the second-floor galleries. The exhibition was co-curated by Cindy Kang and Corrinne Chong. "See ...

Matisse's great-granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the ...

Visitors take in Henri Matisse's cutout "The Swimming Pool" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2014. (Selçuk Acar / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) Ten years ago, a radical spine cancer surgery ...

Matisse’s great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse tell the tumultuous story of his early life, exploring his journey to becoming the first avant-garde artist of the 20th century. Show more Henri Matisse is ...