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 ...

The dramatic colours of the European south seem to have had an almost erotic appeal to the straitlaced northerner. The second thing to come to mind may be spontaneity. Matisse's paintings have a kind ...

Femme au chapeau hung at the center of a defining moment of rupture in the history of modern art, shocking audiences.

The dazzlingly bright cut-outs the Frenchman made in his last decade show a period of vitality and radical reinvention At the start of the Second World War, Henri Matisse found himself, for the first ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

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 ...

The artist Ellsworth Kelly said that Pablo Picasso made him want to paint, but Henri Matisse made him want to draw. In 2014, Kelly was given access to Matisse’s drawings in the Pierre and Tana Matisse ...

Hutchinson’s husband paid 8,000 francs for the work and it remained in the family estate A charcoal portrait of Mary Hutchinson, elegant in a designer blouse and leaning gracefully on one elbow, by ...

Nothing readied me for the visual thunder, physical profundity, and oceanic joy of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at MoMA. In The Cut-Outs, Matisse found the artistic estuary he’d always been looking for ...

Henri Matisse burst onto the French art scene like a bombshell at the 1905 Salon d’Automne. Faced with paintings in vibrant colour, the public was scandalised. The 35-year-old Matisse and his ...