A tenuous connection to late Henri Matisse is evident ... unidentifiable things and abstract forms switch identities. The artist’s bulbous tubular forms share something with Abstract ...

Despite being influenced by the work of Matisse and early abstract artists such as Klee, Rothko rejected the idea that he was an abstract artist, saying, “I'm not interested in the relationship ...

The gesture is confusing. Why is Matisse studying an art form he had rejected three decades earlier in works painted by his supposed rival and tormentor? There’s an added twist: Matisse later ...

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...