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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...