Femme au chapeau hung at the center of a defining moment of rupture in the history of modern art, shocking audiences.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Andy Russell is widely recognized as a master in acrylic painting, and he recently ...

Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...

Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

Jackie Matisse thinks of it as painting in the sky. Matisse makes kites. Then she flies them on a plateau near her house an hour outside Paris. The brightly colored tails are dozens of feet long. Some ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than a century has passed since Henri Matisse created “The Red Studio”, a painting of a roomful of ...

Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude), 1953; Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 93.3 cm, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ...

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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” ...

Every decision visible in a work of art bears witness to the rejection of something else. What we see is not only the result of determined assertions—“I will do this” or “I will allow this to ...