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 ...

Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window. The painting’s primary color is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting by Henri Matisse that has been in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum since 1941 will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish textile manufacturer who was forced to sell the work while ...

Sept. 22, 1962: The air was electric at the Everhart Museum on a Saturday night as it formally accepted two pieces of modern art from the collection of the late Adele Levy. The pieces were Henri ...

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 ...

24.7 x 32.4 cm. (9.7 x 12.8 in.) Pen and ink on paper, stamped with initials HM. Executed in Thaiti 1930. 24.7 x 32.4 cm. Recorded as number T83 in the Matisse archives. 'I finally discovered that ...

When Henri Matisse set off, together with his wife Amélie, for Morocco in 1912, he was 42 years old. He had taken up painting when he was about 20 as a bored law student recovering from a bout of ...