LOS ANGELES — Lips half open with limbs positioned to entice, the female figures of Henri Matisse’s odalisque ... the instrument mirror the arched mosaic behind her, while her pants match ...

While tourists flock to magnetic destinations like Nice and Cannes, these often overlooked small towns offer art, history, ...

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

One reason — one of many — to be interested in Henri Matisse is that he was the severest, the most ruthlessly disciplined of sensualists. In early 1917, when he painted this stunning work in ...

Artful descriptions, much the way a painter might define their craft. In fact it was Henri Matisse who once said, "I don't literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me." ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own ...

The traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco’s Museum of Art last week the show had ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage.

It’s surprising, even a revelation, since I came as an agnostic -- at best -- on Henri Matisse (1869–1954), who seemed to me derivative more often than not. I left not loving his work overall ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.