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 ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers ... where he began to revolutionise art in his Fauvism period "by liberating colour", Bouvier said. It continues up to his late period ...

When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was meant ... the Spanish border, where Fauvism was born; to Nice, on ...

Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France, on December 31, 1869. He embarked on a career in law, but took up painting while recovering ... for their feral quality with the ...

Henri Matisse ... his death in 1954, Matisse’s cut-outs grew in ambition, expanding throughout the interiors of the Hôtel Régina, Nice. With this body of work, the studio changed from being a ...