Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot ... Thoughtful. Sign up for the Style Memo newsletter. I thought about this again when I read Matisse’s own words, uttered four years before his ...

By 1898, Matisse was already painting in a style that would soon become known as Fauvism. The Fauvist art movement began in 1904, with Henri Matisse and André Derain as its leaders. The first of ...

The results often seem to aim more at style obsolescence than at great ... Few have achieved a more luxuriant signature than Henri Matisse. A dozen years have passed since Matisse died at the ...