Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window. The painting’s primary ...

The open window, metaphor for painting, its framing of reality, is co-opted into Matisse’s hedonistic search for “beauty and order” after the war.

They include The Open Window, Collioure (1905), shown at the Salon d’Automne in Paris that October, where the term “fauves” was first used to describe Matisse and his peers.

The famously cantankerous collector’s voracious appetite for the two painters is now celebrated in “Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes,” a revelatory installation occasioned by ...

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 … ...

With the exhibition “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain and the Origin of Fauvism,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art cuts to the chase, narrowing the field to Fauvism’s two leaders, Henri ...

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse. The painting is a highlight of the exhibition Vertigo of Colour: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of ...

The Magician of Color: On the Vibrant, Shocking, Life-Affirming Matisse Show at MoMA Playful, daring and immediate, Henri Matisse’s cutouts incite the giddiness of a circus; the reveries of a ...