Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and exploration.

FABRICS WERE WOVEN into Henri Matisse's life from start to finish. Growing up as a weaver's grandson in industrial northeastern France, the boy who would become one of the 20th century's greatest ...

Matisse came from a clan of weavers and maintained a ""working library"" of textiles throughout his life, drawing on them for inspiration. This book-the catalogue for a travelling exhibition that ...

Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali and Hungarian costume designer Marcel Vertès both created work for New York based Wesley Simpson Custom Fabrics, while in 1947, Henri Matisse designed a limited ...

Two wonderful shows that have just opened in New York—“Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro” at the Museum of Modern Art and “Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams” at the ...

CHICAGO -- If the world is coming apart at the seams and society’s provisional fabric is being shredded ... the great French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the answer is not so simple.

Matisse set himself the almost impossible task of retaining the concentrated simplicity and force of his work without sacrificing the sensual texture of fur, feathers, fabric or fluff. He returned ...

Matisse had recently moved into a new flat on ... Here, you can see the repeating design on the wallpaper, the pierced and appliquéd fabric from North Africa behind the male model, the colorful ...

Flesh, too. Fabrics. Food. Windows. A violin by a balcony with a view of sky. The, yes, great work that resulted is a collaboration of a man and a climate. Matisse would have seafood brought up ...

FABRICS WERE WOVEN into Henri Matisse's life from start to finish. Growing up as a weaver's grandson in industrial northeastern France, the boy who would become one of the 20th century's greatest ...