When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to ... scene for six months and had done numerous studies for it—drawings, watercolors and oil sketches. He had even prepared a full-size ...

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during ... used a vivid palette in their paintings, inspired by Matisse’s bold harmonies. Overall, ...

I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...

You can sense the sheer pleasure, the delight in his sun-drenched paintings. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire said it well: “Like the orange, Henri Matisse’s paintings are the fruit of dazzling ...