Six feet tall by seven feet wide, the canvas was among a series of works commissioned by Matisse’s early patron, Sergei Shchukin, a Russian textile businessman, for whom the artist made his ...

In Matisse’s art, this larger colonial context that he ... fell to German troops in the early days of the First World War. With memories of looting by German forces who had occupied the ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

In early 1917, when he painted this stunning ... dozing.” Slowly, Matisse’s whole approach to art began to change. “Studio, Quai Saint-Michel” was the last in a series of four canvases ...

The first dance painting represented one of Matisse's early turns towards a more simplistic approach to painting, using the basic elements of line, colour and form. Reacting to the introduction of ...

The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century ... Image Henri Matisse’s “La Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water,” 1905, oil and graphite ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... the visionary culmination of a lifetime’s mastery of drawing, painting and sculpture. For Matisse, who likened making cutouts to swimming and flying ...