Henri Matisse’s fine line drawings and art work has emerged into the world of interiors, fast becoming a go-to design for minimalist soft furnishings.

Henri Matisse's 1940 oil painting "Interior with an Etruscan Vase." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore ...

Similarly, I found myself looking more intently at three of Matisse’s Nice interiors, painted between 1919 and 1921, savoring their rich variations of pattern and texture.

Figures could be composed of simple shapes and colors; interiors could be based on patterns. “Matisse used the making of the dance to lay new foundation for his art, to reformulate and radicalize his ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20 th century, ... colorful interiors his subjects inhabited, like in his 1953 oil painting Pink Nude.

Henri Matisse's "Large Reclining Nude," 1935, oil on canvas, is among the works on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Matisse show. (Baltimore Museum of Art/Succession H. Matisse/Artists ...

‘Joyful confidence’ and ‘legendary optimism’: these are the values that drive Maison Matisse, the design studio established by Henri Matisse’s great-grandson to celebrate the late artist’s ‘joie de ...

Henri Matisse (b.1869). At the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Great Works, In Focus. A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United States.