The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents “Matisse in the 1930s,” the most important American exhibition of the French artist in years.

Matisse’s work, originally compiled by his daughter Marguerite Duthuit-Matisse, is arranged chronologically in the exhibit to orient viewers who may be daunted by his prolific body of work ...

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

Many seeking to satisfy a craving for the artwork of Henri Matisse need go no further than Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation. With 59 paintings by Matisse it is one of the largest collections in the ...

Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window. The painting’s primary ...

“A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore” chronicles how a Jewish collector made the avant-garde commonplace in America.

The 1940s were not kind to Henri Matisse. During World War II, Gestapo agents brutally tortured his daughter, and complications from an intestinal operation weakened him and left him permanently ...

French & American masters: Matisse, Diebenkorn 16 photos And while French painter Henri Matisse is a household name in this country, many Americans have never heard of Richard Diebenkorn.

Estimated to sell for between $700,000 and $1,000,000, Matisse’s painting of Henriette Darricarrère represents a crucial phase of the artist’s development.

On “Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 27–April 19, 2009. Photo: Musée de Grenoble, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADADGP, ...