yellow and black leaves in his 1951 “Mimosa.” These artworks arrive as the culminating synthesis of his interest in brilliant color, flat pattern and Islamic design. Matisse's 1948 painting ...

An exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris examines Marguerite's indelible influence on her father's evolving painting ...

In the final work, Matisse removes the driver and any other road traffic, but leaves the top of his own sketch of the same painting visible, giving the work a strange meta-image quality.

Through the window behind him, a garden teeming with branches and leaves. Turning to paint, Matisse slowly pared the image back to the point where he felt that it expressed, in as concentrated a ...

Hands and feet become fins, feathers, petals and leaves. Darwinian sea creatures ... As in Egyptian wall painting, Matisse engenders the spatial disorientation and tension of conflicting viewpoints.

Image Henri Matisse’s “La Japonaise ... at Collioure,” one of his best-known paintings, where the balance of the shapes of tree, leaves and hills are so carefully calibrated that the ...

Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting ... The problem is that most recognition is in terms of memory, like a Matisse shape or a Picasso shape.

Matisse died eight years after completing the painting. It has been in his family’s possession ever since. The NGA negotiated to acquire the artwork directly from this collection with funds ...

Here is art as frozen music. In his mastery of formal structure and lucid detail, Cézanne has been compared with J?S Bach, and Matisse also draws comparisons with a great composer. Not Stravinsky ...

22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.) ...

Matisse, whose mother was ill behind enemy lines, had tried three times to enlist. He was rejected each time because of his age. (He was 47.) As if to compensate, in such paintings as “The Piano ...

Matisse rebels against his father's wishes and goes to art school in Paris.