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 ...

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

Matisse almost claws at the lace — he drags and stabs the brush. There’s a roughness to the surface that contradicts the traditional bourgeois subject.

After the Museum of Modern Art’s successful “Matisse Picasso” show in New York (2003), Glenn Lowry, the museum’s director, asked the curator John Elderfield what his next project would be ...

His self-portraits, primarily drawn from the mid-1930s to 1954 and, of course, his odalisques, round out the exhibit. Matisse takes pattern and decoration beyond the realm of surface design.

Alastair Sooke explains how Henri Matisse made his greatest work without even lifting a brush – and why the artist's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence reduced him to tears ...

Alex Matisse, a renowned potter and the great-grandson of French artist Henri Matisse, was never one to rest on his last name. But now that East Fork, his Asheville, North Carolina-based company ...

French artist Henri Matisse never lets you forget you’re looking at a painting. He fills every square inch of his canvas with color and pattern ...

When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting "The Joy of Life," he was 36.

Alexander Matisse's exhibit "New Ceramics," on view at the Memorial Art Gallery through June 8, poses its own quiet rebellion. His great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, and his grandfather, art dealer ...

Many seeking to satisfy a craving for the artwork of Henri Matisse need go no further than Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation. With 59 paintings by Matisse it is one of the largest collections in the ...