Dutch painter Kees van Dongen's painting "Saida." Henri Matisse's "Open Window, Collioure," from 1905, is an icon of the Fauvist movement. Transcendence comes cheap and easy at “Matisse and ...

Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New ... There are Fauvist classics here, like “Open Window, Collioure,” a painting so widely loved and reproduced that it has become cloying.

Matisse greatly admired Renoir ... both with two women seated at a table before an open window, that turn interior and exterior into jaunty floating shapes and patterns, each painting reversing ...

You've seem most of them already, on postcards, on T-shirts, in books. But seeing them for real and for free in one of the most welcoming, friendliest and most beautiful buildings on earth is one ...

When the Minneapolis Institute of Arts opens the highly anticipated “Matisse: Masterworks From the Baltimore Museum of Art” on Sunday, visitors will have a rare opportunity to see more than 80 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty paintings, a dozen sculptures, as many gouache cut-outs: the Beyeler Fondation’s stunning new ...

In 1898, Henri Matisse received a silver chocolate pot as a wedding gift. The pot would later star in numerous works by the renowned French artist, including the never-before-exhibited watercolor ...

The Frieze art fair has turned 20 this week, and is only growing in its ambitions, having acquired the Armory Show fair in New York and Expo Chicago. So what should we make of Frieze’s ...

When you consider that Henri Matisse nearly died following emergency ... against the Provençal light pouring through the window, as the shadow beneath a bowl of pomegranates on a pink table ...

Henri Matisse’s large painting “The Red Studio ... Contours tend to be summarily indicated by thin yellow lines. Part of a pale-blue window obtrudes. But nothing disrupts the composition ...