Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

The gesture is confusing. Why is Matisse studying an art form he had rejected three decades earlier in works painted by his supposed rival and tormentor? There’s an added twist: Matisse later ...

Your muse or your wife’ is quite the ultimatum to throw at an artist. But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 ...

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Henri Matisse is such a ­pillar of 20th-century art that you may ask yourself what could possibly remain to be dis­­­c­overed about him. But as Matisse et Marguerite, a forthcoming exhibition ...

This whole device of putting his own artworks in his own art becomes the grand structure of this painting. As with The Red Studio, it too depicts a corner. So that line that you see between the ink ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...