Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

To charges that he was painting erotic nudes, Matisse replied: “It is not a woman; it is a picture.” Matisse meant his art to soothe, not shock. Said he: “I dream of an art that is pure ...

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to ...

Calme et Volupte" for the title of his pivotal 1904 oil painting. "The invitation to travel expresses in a particular way the quintessential aesthetic of Matisse," the exhibition's curator Raphael ...

Your muse or your wife’ is quite the ultimatum to throw at an artist. But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 ...