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 ...

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

Titled “The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists”, it compares the French Fauvist’s use of color, composition, and pattern to three Japanese printmakers: Kikugawa Eizan ...

Facing a creative slump, Henri Matisse was transformed by a challenging commission. It changed the course of his life – and art history – forever, writes Diane Bernard.

Slowly, Matisse’s whole approach to art began to change. “Studio, Quai Saint-Michel” was the last in a series of four canvases depicting Matisse’s studio overlooking the Seine.

The Barnes Foundation's newest exhibit spotlights Matisse and Renoir. Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Mussel-Fishers at Berneval" Anyone who's wandered the Barnes' (barnesfoundation.org) second-floor ...

Similarly, I found myself looking more intently at three of Matisse’s Nice interiors, painted between 1919 and 1921, savoring their rich variations of pattern and texture.

Figures could be composed of simple shapes and colors; interiors could be based on patterns. “Matisse used the making of the dance to lay new foundation for his art, to reformulate and radicalize his ...

Henri Matisse was one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century. Matisse’s use of unmodulated color, inventive figuration, and decorative patterns helped redefine many of the formal ...

Facing a creative slump in his later years, Henri Matisse was transformed by a challenging commission. It changed the course of his life – and art history – forever, writes Diane Bernard. In ...