With the exhibition “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origin of Fauvism,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art cuts to the chase, narrowing the field to Fauvism’s two leaders, Henri ...

Henri Matisse, La Danse, on view at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France, 2015. Photo: chesnot/Corbis via Getty Images. As a movement, Fauvism had but a brief existence, spanning three to ...

How did the expressive, colorful brushstrokes of Van Gogh influence Matisse and ultimately change the course of modern art?

In 1905, painter Henri Matisse invited young Parisian artist André Derain to join him in the French fishing village of Collioure. Inspired by the exquisite light of the Mediterranean, the two men ...

We can’t fully appreciate how astonished they were on seeing the pictures produced by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and André Derain (1880-1954) in the summer of 1905, when they were working in the ...

The leader of the group was Henri Matisse, who had arrived at the Fauve style after experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist approaches of Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat.

Marguerite Endormie, Henri Matisse, 1920 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “This painting wants to take me somewhere else,” Henri Matisse once told his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit ...