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 ...

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 ...

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 career ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own making ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne I saw work by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) ...

Henri Matisse's 1940 oil painting "Interior with an Etruscan Vase." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore, Henri ...

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 ...

One of two suspects has been arrested in the theft of eight artworks by Matisse, as well as five pieces by Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.