Artist’s daughter Marguerite features in most of the pieces, kept in the family until ‘complete surprise’ donation ...

The artist Ellsworth Kelly said that Pablo Picasso made him want to paint, but Henri Matisse made him want to draw. In 2014, Kelly was given access to Matisse’s drawings in the Pierre and Tana Matisse ...

The dramatic colours of the European south seem to have had an almost erotic appeal to the straitlaced northerner. The second thing to come to mind may be spontaneity. Matisse's paintings have a kind ...

, on view at the BMA through Jan. 19, play a similar role, as if a dad were to whip out a sketchbook full of little drawings of his kid. Only, that dad is one of the most famous artists of the 20th ...

Henri Matisse, France 1869-1954. La Pleureuse 1900/1903. 27.5 x 18cm. Collection: Biblioth?que nationale de France, Paris. Henri Matisse, France 1869-1954. Le grand nu 1906. Lithograph, 45 x 43cm.

Henri Matisse - Femme en fauteuil (Woman in a chair), 1935 Pencil on paper 346.203120 (c) 2014 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Visitors ...

Half a century ago, Denise Arokas, a 19-year-old French nurse, arrived at a Paris address to look after an elderly artist whose name was unfamiliar to her. The name was Matisse, and he was so taken ...

Including the international debut of the Pokémon Fossil Museum and a never-before-seen collection of works by Matisse.

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

Miley Cyrus already has over 50 tattoos but over the weekend the singer added another. The 27-year-old Malibu singer showed off a long Henri Matisse drawing that depicted a nude woman on the back of ...