Matisse, for his “Woman with Hat,” a portrait ... dull sugar-beet fields of the north. When Henri was nearly eighteen, the family managed to send him to Paris to study law—which was the ...

A new exhibition at Folkwang looks back at expressionism's early years ... was held at the Paris Salon as early as 1905. What Henri Matisse and other young artists exhibited there, shocked ...

They span "masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering examples of early abstraction and expressionism ... Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, and Wassily Kandinsky. Paul Cézanne's portrait ...

Artful descriptions, much the way a painter might define their craft. In fact it was Henri Matisse who once said, "I don't literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me." ...

The Salon d’Automne in Paris may have been launched in 1903 as a liberal alternative to the staid Paris Salon, but even it was unprepared for what Henri Matisse unveiled in 1905. That year ...

One reason — one of many — to be interested in Henri Matisse is that he was the severest, the most ruthlessly disciplined of sensualists. In early 1917, when he painted this stunning work in ...

Henri Matisse (1867-1954) is celebrated for his radiant colour but the allure of his chromatic verve can obscure his equal mastery of line and tone, qualities that this 50-work show of his prints ...