The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

Van Hyfte’s a common figure in Matisse’s work, appearing at least three other paintings. Van Hyfte, who moved to Belgium from the Belgian Congo after her mother died when she was five ...

If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable—his work entering the public domain in 2025 is only set to cement that ubiquity. He is already “everywhere”, as ...

But the invitations went further, they specified how the sample murals were to be done. Picasso flatly refused. As for Matisse, he politely but firmly replied that the specifications did not ...

It also owns 50 paintings, some 20 sculptures, 125 drawings, a stained glass window and two wall hangings, making Matisse one of the institution's emblems. "Be careful, it's our Mona Lisa," a ...