Titled “The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists”, it compares the French Fauvist’s use of color, composition, and pattern to three Japanese printmakers: Kikugawa Eizan ...

In 1930, Henri Matisse, one of the giants of 20th-Century ... alluring female models in interior studio setups, using vivid patterns and sparkling colours lit by the Mediterranean light.

Henri Matisse was born in Northern France to a loving ... However, he spent most of his time in his studio in Nice, focusing ...

(Emma Lee/WHYY) For the last three weeks, the French modernist artist Henri Matisse, dead for 68 years ... interiors could be based on patterns. “Matisse used the making of the dance to lay new ...

The traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco’s Museum of Art last week the show had ...

I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

One reason — one of many — to be interested in Henri Matisse is that he was the severest, the most ruthlessly disciplined of sensualists. In early 1917, when he painted this stunning work in ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.