Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952) is a skeletal vision of summer. It features only ripples of blue against a tan background, so it’s the viewer who conjures the leaping bodies, the shapes of ...

The former home of the iconic French artist Henri Matisse has hit the market for $2.69 million. Located in Nice, France, on the stunning French Riviera, the two-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now ...

Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own making ...

Long ReadSince Henri Matisse's death in 1954, four generations of his family have guarded his vast body of work jealously and with the utmost discretion. But when the painter's work entered the public ...

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him It’s hard to be precise about what’s going on in this deceptively simple 1924 picture by Henri Matisse. In French, it’s called ...

“It’s always been clay,” Alex Matisse told me of his choice medium. The material suits him: he’s a trained potter and a co-founder of East Fork, a ceramics company rooted in tradition. Yet what’s ...

“Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit,” which opened Monday at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, tells several stories, not the least of which is the unusual pairing of the French artist’s Inuit ...