A feast of modern art from the Toledo Museum of Art has just opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Featuring some big ...

“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 ...

Femme au chapeau hung at the center of a defining moment of rupture in the history of modern art, shocking audiences.

Every decision visible in a work of art bears witness to the rejection of something else. What we see is not only the result of determined assertions—“I will do this” or “I will allow this to ...

In a coming exhibition, MoMA will feature the artworks within this famed painting. Two of them will be on public view for the first time in 50 years. By Robin Pogrebin When Henri Matisse painted “The ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

It’s well known that Henri Matisse was a champion of decorative painting — or perhaps I should say, the decorative in painting. His admirers will have in mind the words from his “Notes of a Painter” ...

The artist's most famous works are in museums, and his collectors can be fickle. Recently, his late work has been reassessed. Alvin Langdon Coburn, portrait of Henri Matisse, 1913. Via Wikimedia ...

His pictures alone seemed to suggest it, especially the paintings of semi-clad women in harem-like settings that Matisse made in Nice in the 1920s. Then there were the streams of beautiful young women ...