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 ...

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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 ...

GLENN LOWRY: The female form was an important subject for Matisse throughout his career. Here he shapes the body out of color, delineating a woman’s figure with the sweep of his scissors. JODI ...

‘Your muse or your wife’ is quite the ultimatum to throw at an artist. But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 when his wife of 30 years (you might know her as ‘Woman with a Hat’, 1905) ...

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...

Gigantic goldfish wreaking havoc in local lakes may sound like something out of a throwback sci-fi flick, but it's all very real. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is sharing pics of “massive ...

Henri Matisse is such a ­pillar of 20th-century art that you may ask yourself what could possibly remain to be dis­­­c­overed about him. But as Matisse et Marguerite, a forthcoming exhibition ...

A massive "Megalodon"-like goldfish caught last year in Pennsylvania has led to a new warning from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-- don't let your pet fish loose in the wild. Last month ...