The title "Henri Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917" fits perfectly the remarkable exhibition that opened last weekend at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show confirms that since then painting as ...

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 ...

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive, one of ...

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 and became one of art history’s most famous figures. His masterpieces, from early Fauvist works through to his cut-outs period which he viewed as “cutting into pure ...

Many seeking to satisfy a craving for the artwork of Henri Matisse need go no further than Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation. With 59 paintings by Matisse it is one of the largest collections in the ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1634): I can’t stand the overused term “masterpiece,” but I’ll happily use it of Henri Matisse’s Piano Lesson, one of the truly great pictures at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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 ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it’s called ...