Having seen the painting ‘Joy of Life’ at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1906, Moscow merchant Sergei Shchukin was so ...

When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was ...

Even so, few French people with a pocketbook for art bought his pictures. Years later, when any major characteristic Matisse of this period normally fetched around fifteen thousand dollars ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers ... the outskirts of Basel has brought together 72 works by the French artist, who died in 1954 aged 84. They include paintings, sculptures ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse has become hugely popular among a certain type of 20- and 30-something woman. But what’s behind the revival? Stylist’s Moya Crockett (a self-professed “M ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical ...

Jacqueline Marval was a French artist known for her work in painting ... Marval was associated with notable peers such as Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, Jules Flandrin, and Kees van Dongen, and was ...

She pointed to "Tête de femme penchée (Lorette)" by Henri Matisse, one of nearly 50 portraits by that artist of his model and muse, Lorette, as well as a pair of self-portraits by pop artist Andy ...

The prints on show at Beverley Art Gallery show work created by Matisse in the last few years of his life An exhibition of French artist Henri Matisse's famous cut-out art has gone on show in East ...

Artist Matisse felt that the farandole ... He also had a mansion, bought French moderns at a time when the rest of the world scoffed. Both collections were nationalized by the Bolsheviks in ...

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.