Baltimore Museum of Art acquires Matisse etchings among 250 new works ...

Claude Monet and Henri Matisse may already be household names for fans of Impressionism, French painting or water lilies, but ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now ...

Henri Matisse, “ Le cheval, l’écuyère, et le clown (The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown),” plate V of XX, from Jazz, 1947, Pochoir (stencil) on Arches paper, 16 3/4” x 25 3/5” (© 2015 Succession H.

Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

The first major exhibit celebrating the artwork that rejuvenated Henri Matisse's career in the 1930s will make its global debut in Philadelphia this fall. "Matisse in the 1930s" will premiere Oct. 19 ...

The hottest ticket in New York right now is not The Book of Mormon or Kinky Boots, nor Weezer or The Brain Cloud. It is entry to MOMA's exhibit of nearly 100 colorful scissor-and-paper cutouts by ...

This undated image released by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter on Friday April 5, 2013, shows part of the painting "Blue Dress in an Yellow Arm Chair", circa 1936 by Henry Matisse. The family of a prominent ...

Today is the birthday of French painter, printmaker, sculptor, and scissor-wielder extraordinaire, Henri Matisse. The Fauvist artist and original sporter of round spectacles would turn 145 if he were ...

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’s called ...