The newly opened exhibition features French masterpieces from the likes of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck. Kunstmuseum Basel in Basel, Switzerland has opened a major ...

The Salon d’Automne in Paris may have been launched in 1903 as a liberal alternative to the staid Paris Salon, but even it was unprepared for what Henri Matisse unveiled in 1905. That year, the ...

In 1905, painter Henri Matisse invited young Parisian artist André Derain to join him in the French fishing village of Collioure. Inspired by the exquisite light of the Mediterranean, the two men ...

A visitor views Henri Matisse's artwork "Young Sailor II" during the exhibition "Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the ...

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies. When Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, Matisse said he and Picasso were “as different as the north pole is ...

Fauvism (pronounced Fo–viz–um) is an art movement that started in France around the year 1900 and was popular until around 1910. Artists who painted in this style used very bright colours and wild ...

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 ...