Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn’t stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

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 ...

The hotly anticipated "Matisse in the Studio" opens tomorrow at the Royal Academy of Arts. "Matisse in the Studio" reveals the connections between the artist's collection and his art. Photos courtesy ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show exhibition of Modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago, a group of students gathered on the portico to stage a mock trial for one of the ...

Henri Matisse was a nostalgist as much as he was an innovator. A painter who remained figurative in the face of abstraction and colorful in spite of Cubism’s monochrome palette, he primarily worked in ...

The late French painter Henri Matisse was quite a perfectionist, and now there's an exhibition to show it. The exhibition, titled Matisse: Pairs and Series, is on display at the Pompidou Center in ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...