"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 ...

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 ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his ... as they thrash about in the white sunlight and choppy blue water. The color is actually many blues. Hauptman said Matisse describes the cut-outs as "drawing ...