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 ...

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; ...

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“Matisse as Printmaker, Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation” showcases the vibrant vision and very modern sensibility of one of the 20th century’s most beloved artists — Henri Matisse — ...

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 ...

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, ...

Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery is please to present an exhibition of works on paper by David Hockney and Henri Matisse, on view from October 10 – November ...

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 ...