In August of 1946, after the end of World War II, an art-obsessed American soldier named Jerome Seckler interviewed legendary French painter Henri Matisse. At the time, Matisse had been suffering from ...

Highlights From A Never-Before-Published Interview With Henri Matisse Design Observer has published an illuminating, long-lost interview with French artist Henri Matisse. Read some highlights here.

Henri Matisse, with Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, trans. from the French by Chris Miller. J. Paul Getty Trust, $45 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60606-129-9 In 1941, Swiss art critic Courthion ...

When he started “drawing with scissors”, Matisse found a whole new way to overthrow the habitual. By Craig Raine Matisse at home in Nice, 1948. Photo: Time & Life/Getty Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs ...

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 ...