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 ...

It’s well known that Henri Matisse was a champion of decorative painting — or perhaps I should say, the decorative in painting. His admirers will have in mind the words from his “Notes of a Painter” ...

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 ...

Matisse, “Still Life with Purro I” (1904) and “Still Life with Purro II” (1904–05) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) By displaying multiple versions of the same painting or subject ...

Some of the artist’s greatest paintings were inspired by views through windows — or in this case, a windshield. It’s not exactly classic Matisse. But I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this ...

I recently had a wonderful opportunity to view concurrently running Philadelphia art exhibits that beckon us as visitors to look at the work of two famous artists much more closely — to examine at ...

Henri Matisse. The Red Studio. 1911. Oil on canvas, 71 1/4″ x 7′ 2 1/4″ (181 x 219.1 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo ...

"Femme Assise" or "Seated Woman/Woman Sitting in an Armchair," an artwork by Henri Matisse that was looted by the Nazi and became part of German collector Cornelius Gurlitt's long-hidden trove, has ...

In the years after World War I the paintings of the School of Paris turn pale-complexioned, silver-toned. This new subdued style, which is occasionally disrupted by flashes of overly bright color, ...