Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opens next ...

Suzy Strauss and Dona Ferry will be presenting Henri Matisse, the Cut-Outs at the Art Salon from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Topaz room at the HOA-2 Art Center on Wednesday, February 19. It will be a ...

Next Sunday, you'll be able to appreciate Henri Matisse's cut-outs in a stunning exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's exhibit notes: In the late 1940s, Henri Matisse turned almost ...

We urged you to see it when it opened in October, but if you've been too busy complaining about the weather (understandable), let this be our last plea: Go see Matisse: The Cut-Outs at the Museum of ...

In the late 1940s, Henri Matisse turned increasingly to cut paper as his primary medium and scissors as his chief implement, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out. A ...

The most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's famous "cut-outs" will go on display at Tate Modern. Around 120 of the French artist's pieces will be shown together for the first ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

From Fauve colors to Cubist compositions, studio-assisted cut-outs and numerous naked women, few artists have shaped our idea of modernism as much as Henri Matisse. Born on New Year’s Eve 1869 in the ...