Your muse or your wife’ is quite the ultimatum to throw at an artist. But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse has become hugely popular among a certain type of 20- and 30-something woman. But what’s behind the revival? Stylist’s Moya Crockett (a self-professed “M ...

Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys ... Eugène Delacroix painting they both admired Women of Algiers (1834), which Picasso riffed off ...

From the author of The Flames, a passionate story set in Paris about three women whose lives are set on a collision course when they meet enigmatic artist Henri Matisse.

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...