Title: Dance 1 (La Danse (version premiere)) Artist: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Date: 1909 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 260 × 390 cm ...

Title: Dance (La Danse) Artist: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Date: 1910 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 260 × 391 cm ...

Height: 19.2 in. Width: 27 in.

A new exhibition sheds light on Marguerite Matisse, who survived childhood trauma and Nazi torture to become her father’s ‘conscience’.

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 ...

Here, the nasturtiums are in front of MoMA's painting, Dance I, which he kept on the back wall of his studio for 30 years. Writer, Claire Messud: When I think of Matisse, I think of his dancers, I ...

GLENN LOWRY: This work, Two Dancers, is one of Matisse’s earliest experiments with cut paper. Curator Samantha Friedman: SAMANTHA FRIEDMAN: Early in the cut-out practice, Matisse was using cut ...

Back in 1899 Matisse had written to his younger brother Auguste to ask for help: “If you want to use your savings to buy a corker of a painting, I’ve found one. It’s cheap and it’s very ...

A new exhibition sheds light on Marguerite Matisse, who survived childhood trauma and Nazi torture to become her father’s ...

But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 when his wife of 30 years (you might know ... Now she’s at it again with the more –superficially at least – mild-mannered Matisse. Think of her as ...

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