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Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

Henri Matisse, “ Le cheval, l’écuyère, et le clown (The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown),” plate V of XX, from Jazz, 1947, Pochoir (stencil) on Arches paper, 16 3/4” x 25 3/5” (© 2015 Succession H.

Matisse, Henri Matisse, “Interior with Egyptian Curtain” (1948). Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (Click to enlarge) (Image via phillipscollection.org) ...

Playful, daring and immediate, Henri Matisse’s cutouts incite the giddiness of a circus; the reveries of a tropical paradise; the dynamic, interwoven eroticism of an orgy. No matter how well you think ...

In 1949, while Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was still in the South of France cutting shapes out of colored paper, Etta Cone from Baltimore gave 600 of his works to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Over the ...

The grand colorist Henri Matisse called his last dozen or so years, from 1941 to 1954, his seconde vie. Convalescing after a series of serious illnesses, he lived on the French Riviera surrounded by a ...

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them,” Henri Matisse once said. It makes sense coming from an artist who lived among some of the leafiest areas of Paris and the French Riviera, ...

In 1951, a show opened at MoMA in New York that LIFE magazine celebrated as “a monumental exhibit [that] crowns a lifetime of creativity by the 81-year-old modern master,” Henri Matisse. Here, ...

Once used as fighting words during the recent PMA strike, “Matisse in the 1930s” opens, tracing a transformative decade in the life of Henri Matisse. File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening ...