Matisse made his colorful cut-outs late in life after debilitating abdominal surgery, and they are the star of this focused new exhibition.

As winter gave way to spring, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 settled in at the Art Institute of Chicago for a three-month stay. The city immediately embraced the exhibit: its gala grand opening ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.

The Baltimore Museum of Art will soon be home to a dedicated Henri Matisse study center, making the most of the museum’s collection of 1,200 works by the French master—the most in any public museum.

How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side by side? With Rita Braver, we take a look: They were born nearly 50 years and an ocean apart. And while French ...

Eclectic, personal, and vibrant, “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts offers you the chance to delve into Henri Matisse’s whimsical world of figures, patterns, and objects. The new ...

As the gray days and chilly weather of February drag on, you may find yourself longing for sunshine and sea air. Although the curators at the Saint Louis Art Museum can’t quite conjure a salty breeze, ...

Matisse's great-granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

As an apprentice to a potter, what Alex Matisse discovered shaped him like clay itself. "When I walked in, I knew that this is what I was going to do," he said. "We were told pots have skin and bones ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...