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The author of a new book, Jeff Koehler, tells us about the French artist’s fruitful but sometimes tricky sojourns in Tangier ...
The former home of the iconic French artist Henri Matisse has hit the market for ... With four balconies and a bow window, the residence offers a panoramic view of the city, the Mediterranean ...
Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... at the French doors and large picture window at opposite ends of the chamber. Transforming the entire room, Matisse created a boundless artwork no ...
Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri ... Through the window behind him, a garden teeming with branches and leaves. Turning to paint, Matisse slowly ...
I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse ... up with Matisse. Our dad’s limited signed print of the cutout “The Flowing Hair,” a variation of the “Blue Nudes ...
(This is the first part of a two-part article. Read the second part.) At the débuts of all the revolutionary styles of painting that now seem merely to make up the lovely late-nineteenth-century ...
In fact it was Henri Matisse who once said ... "We wanted something like the Blue Nude series that was instantly recognizable," Alex said. "But then, I wanted some that spoke to me a little ...
In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri ... Matisse, both painted in 1905, unnerved contemporaries. His notorious Blue Nude ...
The company has also developed a new dark blue color, which it is calling La Sirène (the Mermaid), inspired by a color often used in Henri’s palette, bridging Matisse’s saturated, graphic sen ...
Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri Matisse ... expanse of deep blue water?
Facing a creative slump in his later years, Henri Matisse ... Barnes offered Matisse a commission: to create a painting that would fit that massive arches above the windows in his new gallery.