"The drawings of Henri Matisse must surely be among the most beautiful objects made by any human hand in the 20th century — or come to think of it, ever." This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning art ...

Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut ... In addition to this group of around 40 drawings, he had taken a few uninspiring black-and-white photographs of the islanders, his hotel terrace ...

Playful, daring and immediate, Henri Matisse’s cutouts incite the giddiness ... Matisse designed its stained-glass windows, sculpture, black-on-white-tile murals and liturgical vestments.

Between the end of the First World War and his final flowering as a semi-abstract collagist, Henri Matisse (1869 ... we come to the fourth — black — the white line pops as a graphical ...

In March of 1941, while the Germans were occupying half of France, the French painter Henri Matisse underwent a ... south and one (with a Moorish black-and-white tile floor) on the north, in ...