Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art ...

It’s hard to know whether the artist Henri Matisse or his model was more driven, more compulsive — or, to not put too fine a point on it, more frankly bonkers. An argument can be made for awarding top ...

The first major exhibit celebrating the artwork that rejuvenated Henri Matisse's career in the 1930s will make its global debut in Philadelphia this fall. "Matisse in the 1930s" will premiere Oct. 19 ...

Some 60 drawings by Henri Matisse went under the hammer at Christie’s on October 8, raising more than $2.5 million to benefit New York art nonprofits. Titled Henri Matisse: Lines of Connection, the ...

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 making ...

On a recent trip to New York and its summer environs, I was struck by what was in some ways a small exhibition centered on just one painting, quite well known, that is more than 110 years old and that ...

Here’s a roundup of pieces, including reviews of past shows, that trace the life and career of the giant of modernism. When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, ...

Henri Matisse's colorful, iconoclastic 1905 portrait of his wife Amelie wearing a big hat is at the center of a thrilling exhibition opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ...

The 1940s were looking dire for Henri Matisse. The Nazis had just invaded France, and an operation to treat his abdominal cancer had saved his life but taken a grisly toll on his body. Amid that bleak ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...