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

Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window. The painting’s primary color is a ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

The artist's most famous works are in museums, and his collectors can be fickle. Recently, his late work has been reassessed. Alvin Langdon Coburn, portrait of Henri Matisse, 1913. Via Wikimedia ...

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.

As the art world is getting ready for the back-to-back two-week frenzy of Frieze London and Art Basel Paris, there’s an equally important event in Switzerland. Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel ...