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 ...

German Jewish family hails 'symbolic justice' after investigation proves ownership of Matisse painting sold 83-years old by holocaust victim to fund escape from Nazi persecution. A painting by French ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

Playful, daring and immediate, Henri Matisse’s cutouts incite the giddiness of a circus; the reveries of a tropical paradise; the dynamic, interwoven eroticism of an orgy. No matter how well you think ...

When you consider that Henri Matisse nearly died following emergency surgery in 1941 and was in poor health until his death in 1954, it makes the productivity of his final decades all the more ...