Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

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 so no point is any more or less important than any other ...

Vantage Theater is committed to producing new works that have something to say. Its latest production is a world premiere called "The Color of Light" about artist Henri Matisse. Matisse helped ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

Many artists wind down in their twilight years, but not Matisse. He was not only prolific, but also created an entirely new art form with his vivid, cut-out paper works. Global Editorial Director ...

Scientists working in France, Belgium, and the United States have all confirmed that paintings by both Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh are losing their bright yellow hues, which are slowly fading ...

Painting was ecstasy for Henri Matisse. Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush. But between about 1905 and 1917, he was on the rack. His experiments on canvas broke so ...

Vertigo of Color, Metropolitan Museum review — Matisse and Derain’s fruitful Fauve summer on facebook (opens in a new window) Vertigo of Color, Metropolitan Museum review — Matisse and Derain’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse summoned his friend André Derain to the seaside town of Collioure, near ...