Henri Matisse's love of painting began when he contracted appendicitis and was on bed rest. After studying in St. Tropez, he joined a group called the “Fauves” who used color in a very non-traditional ...

An image of simplicity and grace, Nu au Bracelet was created by Henri Matisse in 1940 as an original linocut measuring 12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (32 x 24.4 cm). From the unsigned and unnumbered edition ...

Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot ... The show’s first room features Matisse’s earliest responses to the sea. The paintings are modest — but momentous. Matisse had grown up ...

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French ... He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the ...

The text offers a series of loosely connected thoughts on painting, life and the making of the book. Matisse’s nurse, Lydia Delectorskaya, noted Matisse’s description of the works to be included in ...

New exhibit of Matisse’s cut-outs shows how artist began ‘painting with scissors’ 120 of Matisse's paper cut-outs -- created between 1936 and 1954 -- have been collected and will be on ...

Media coverage often mentions Matisse's family background, an art pedigree originating with her great-grandfather, the 20th century painter Henri Matisse. The London Sunday Telegraph newspaper in 2003 ...

They include paintings, sculptures and cut-out paper collages from ... "The exhibition as a retrospective is really conceived as an invitation to voyage into the work of Henri Matisse," Bouvier said.

The spectacular exploits of Wootton Bassett's first Irish-conceived crop of two-year-olds reached ever greater heights on Del ...