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 ...

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 ...

After the Museum of Modern Art’s successful “Matisse Picasso” show in New York (2003), Glenn Lowry, the museum’s director, asked the curator John Elderfield what his next project would be ...

Matisse almost claws at the lace — he drags and stabs the brush. There’s a roughness to the surface that contradicts the traditional bourgeois subject.

His self-portraits, primarily drawn from the mid-1930s to 1954 and, of course, his odalisques, round out the exhibit. Matisse takes pattern and decoration beyond the realm of surface design.

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.

Alastair Sooke explains how Henri Matisse made his greatest work without even lifting a brush – and why the artist's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence reduced him to tears ...

Alex Matisse, a renowned potter and the great-grandson of French artist Henri Matisse, was never one to rest on his last name. But now that East Fork, his Asheville, North Carolina-based company ...

When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting "The Joy of Life," he was 36.

French artist Henri Matisse never lets you forget you’re looking at a painting. He fills every square inch of his canvas with color and pattern ...

Alexander Matisse's exhibit "New Ceramics," on view at the Memorial Art Gallery through June 8, poses its own quiet rebellion. His great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, and his grandfather, art dealer ...