Today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly and Frenchman Henri Matisse are recognized as two of the most significant artists of the 20th century. Yet, their lifetimes overlapped for a mere 21 years; ...

Henri Matisse - Femme en fauteuil (Woman in a chair), 1935 Pencil on paper 346.203120 (c) 2014 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Visitors ...

, on view at the BMA through Jan. 19, play a similar role, as if a dad were to whip out a sketchbook full of little drawings of his kid. Only, that dad is one of the most famous artists of the 20th ...

I saw work by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) for the first time when I was seven. It was a tapestry, Polynesia, newly acquired for the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW. I wondered at the simplicity of ...

Strip away the colours, saturated and pulsing, look past the flat plane of the pictorial surface, and you come back to the line, a single line that pulses and sings, turning everything into rhythm and ...

Once used as fighting words during the recent PMA strike, “Matisse in the 1930s” opens, tracing a transformative decade in the life of Henri Matisse. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening ...

The current show of prints at Marlborough Fine Art shows us just this last aspect. Here is Matisse at his finest as a magical art conjurer: a handful of curving lines, a smudge of shadow and shading, ...

The center aims to establish a "dialogue between modern and contemporary art," one curator says. Baltimore Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has opened a research center focused on the ...

I saw work by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) for the first time when I was seven. It was a tapestry, Polynesia, newly acquired for the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW. I wondered at the simplicity of ...

Henri Matisse was suffering from appendicitis when his mother gave him his first a paint box filled with colour. Seduced by the potential kaleidescopes, Matisse's practice was then built around colour ...