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

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized ...

When Henri Matisse headed to Morocco in the winter of 1912, he was at a particularly low ebb. “It was crunch time for him,” says Jeff Koehler, the author of Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of ...

“This painting wants to take me somewhere else,” Henri Matisse once told his eldest daughter, Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse, as she was modeling for him. “Do you feel up to it?” For Matisse ...

Plus, there’s a lot of cultural sights to see; the city inspired painters like Henri Matisse and André Derain and gave rise to the Fauvism movement. A coffee on the harbour front is a must.

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art's godfathers.

We trace the brief yet rich life of Fauvism, an art movement led by Henri Matisse that forewent staid representation for sensation.

Get to Know “Monet to Matisse: French Moderns” at Portland Art Museum Curator Lloyd DeWitt shares his hints, tips and tricks for navigating the museum’s newest exhibit.

For Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and André Derain (1880–1954), a single such summer spent painting together in 1905, in the Mediterranean fishing village of Collioure, led to what we now know as Fauvism, ...

As the foundational tale goes, after Fauve Henri Matisse showed his “Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra),” an unclothed woman in the odalisque tradition (reclining, orientalizing) reduced to ...

Nine weeks between artists Henri Matisse and André Derain changed art forever.