The final blue is very close to the artist’s rich ultramarine—but, as Matisse noted, even Henri’s blues weren’t entirely fixed: “Even within the cut-outs, it moves around. It’s not the ...

The Cut-Outs exhibition “definitely channelled ... shapes of the female form and acknowledging these with our art.” While Matisse’s female nudes are inevitably presented “from a very ...

When Alex Matisse founded East Fork Pottery, in Asheville, N.C., he didn't want to use the name of his great-grandfather, ...

In 1905 it was his wife who stared calmly out from conflagrations ... Over the next eight years Matisse gradually abandoned easel painting, experimenting with prints, inventing cut-paper ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...

The house described Cézanne's painting ... of Matisse's celebrated Nice Period, while anticipating the expressive flattened space and form of his iconic late-career paper cut-outs." ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 Digital image:The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles/Artwork:© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014 ...