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: Matisse’s cut-outs often appear effortless. But the work was arduous, and sometimes he struggled. This was especially true when he began creating the Blue Nudes. Jodi Hauptman: JODI ...

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

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‘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) ...

Spring is a time for renewal, and not only in nature. Fresh new exhibitions are opening at museums around the world, with an ...

In 1953, a year before Matisse’s death, the elderly and mainly bedridden artist was still innovating, producing his famed “cut-outs”—brightly-coloured irregular shapes arranged on a white ...

But I was bound for Fondation Beyeler, a gallery designed by an Italian (Renzo Piano), to see the works of a Frenchman (Henri Matisse). The exhibition and building were ... Manfred Gottschalk/Getty) ...

But I was bound for Fondation Beyeler, a gallery designed by an Italian (Renzo Piano), to see the works of a Frenchman (Henri Matisse ... after admiring Matisse’s paper cut-outs (the current ...