With a major show of Henri Matisse's cut-outs opening stateside this fall at New York's Museum of Modern Art, designers are busily creating patterns inspired by the textile-obsessed painter's art.

The Matisse and Cézanne shows prove that smart curators can refresh even the most overexposed artists. ... Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through September 25.

Matisse’s windows offer glimpses of another life ... (1911), for example, a vast canvas that vibrates with floral motifs and fabrics and disrupts space and dimension, ...

Matisse, His Art and His Textiles: The Fabric of Dreams. Royal Academy of Arts, $65 (212pp) ISBN 978-1-903973-46-2 ...

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.

Matisse was 44 and already successful as war broke out, but he was turned down when he volunteered for military service. Friends did march off to fight, and some did not return. They gave their ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it ...

Matisse would have seafood brought up from a restaurant to his hotel room, overlooking the esplanade, in the morning so that he could paint it into still-lifes and then return it in time for lunch.

With a major show of Henri Matisse's cut-outs opening stateside this fall at New York's Museum of Modern Art, designers are busily creating patterns inspired by the textile-obsessed painter's art.