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 ...

One of the distinctions of "Matisse and American Art" is its emphasis on the very early years: It starts off with a 1907 Italian landscape by Walter Pach reminiscent of Matisse's Notre Dame series ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...