More than a century after its incendiary début, “Woman with a Hat” remains wonderfully resistant to the dictates of beauty and taste.

Henri Matisse, "The Red Studio" (1911), oil on canvas, 71 1/4 x 7 feet x 2 1/4 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund (© 2022 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights ...

Matisse has been so assiduously promoted by generations of critics, curators, and historians as the prophet of the big, bold, knock-your-socks-off decorative canvas that it can come as a wonderful ...

There's a little-known true story about Henri Matisse in which the French painter walks into a cafe and, when all the patrons stand up to applaud him, turns to his friend and says, "Oh, they must ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Of all the great masterpieces of early 20th-century art, Henri Matisse ...

After mounting definitive retrospectives of Pablo Picasso in 1980 and Henri Matisse in 1992, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with London’s Tate Modern and Paris’s Musée Picasso and ...

In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri Matisse, stranded in Nice on the Mediterranean coast, sent a moving letter to his younger son, ...

See the two sculptures, both with bad posture, on the far right side of this painting by Henri Matisse? Now, to the right of those, do you see a smudgy, spindly, gray rectangle embedded within a white ...

Some 60 drawings by Henri Matisse went under the hammer at Christie’s on October 8, raising more than $2.5 million to benefit New York art nonprofits. Titled Henri Matisse: Lines of Connection, the ...

Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million which were stolen from an Italian museum in March have been recovered, police said Friday. The Renoir is worth three million euros ($3 ...

With a bow window and four balconies overlooking the French Riviera, this grand apartment feels like it was made for Henri Matisse, who moved in when he was already a well-established pioneer of ...