Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art ...

All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.

Henri Matisse was a nostalgist as much as he was an innovator. A painter who remained figurative in the face of abstraction and colorful in spite of Cubism’s monochrome palette, he primarily worked in ...

A rising artist and Maryland native is using his work to examine one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. The exhibit ...

In a coming exhibition, MoMA will feature the artworks within this famed painting. Two of them will be on public view for the first time in 50 years. By Robin Pogrebin When Henri Matisse painted “The ...

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 ...

Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

I recently had a wonderful opportunity to view concurrently running Philadelphia art exhibits that beckon us as visitors to look at the work of two famous artists much more closely — to examine at ...

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them,” Henri Matisse once said. It makes sense coming from an artist who lived among some of the leafiest areas of Paris and the French Riviera, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France returned to its rightful owners on Thursday a painting by French master Henri Matisse which was seized by the Nazis in 1941 after its Jewish owner fled anti-Semitic ...