French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career ...

The exhibition places special emphasis on Matisse's exploration of the female figure. More than twenty works focus on the nude across the 1920s and 1930s.

Eclectic, personal, and vibrant, “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts offers you the chance to delve into Henri Matisse’s whimsical world of figures, patterns, and objects. The new ...

California painter Richard Diebenkorn remains difficult to pin down even 24 years after his death, but Bay Area museums continue to define and redefine him with dazzling displays of color. For art ...

As winter gave way to spring, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 settled in at the Art Institute of Chicago for a three-month stay. The city immediately embraced the exhibit: its gala grand opening ...

Henri Matisse's 1940 oil painting "Interior with an Etruscan Vase." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore, Henri ...