Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952) is a skeletal vision of summer. It features only ripples of blue against a tan background, so it’s the viewer who conjures the leaping bodies, the shapes of ...

France 5 programme ce soir Matisse et Lydia, un documentaire qui dresse un portrait passionnant d’une figure méconnue de l’art du XXe siècle... En 1932, à Nice, Lydia Delectorskaya, venue de Sibérie, ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side by side? With Rita Braver, we take a look: They were born nearly 50 years and an ocean apart. And while French ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

There's a little-known true story about Henri Matisse in which the French painter walks into a cafe and, when all the patrons stand up to applaud him, turns to his friend and says, "Oh, they must ...