The Art Newspaper2d
Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...
Artnet news1mon
NATIONALISM OF VICHY, 1940-1944
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized by the Nazis, sold for cash or possibly ...
The Spectator Australia3d
A picture of jealous rivalry: Madame Matisse, by Sophie Haydock, reviewed
Your muse or your wife’ is quite the ultimatum to throw at an artist. But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish ...
Las Vegas Sun11d
A painting stolen from an Italian museum is found in England, but its new owner wants to keep it
A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found — and is now at the center of a custody battle between a ...
Mount Vernon gears up for 20th Chalk the Walk festival
The City of Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Parks and Recreation, and the Mount Vernon Area Arts Council (MVAAC) have announced ...
The Week14d
Why Paris’s Pompidou Centre museum draws a huge crowd all of a sudden
The museum's permanent works include paintings by Salvador Dali, and Henri Matisse, and sculptures by Marcel Duchamp ...