Henri Matisse's love of painting began when he contracted appendicitis and was on bed rest. After studying in St. Tropez, he joined a group called the “Fauves” who used color in a very non-traditional ...

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

Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized by the Nazis, sold for cash or possibly ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made ... An exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s paintings was on show at the Palais Grimaldi and Matisse, fast approaching ...

Here, the nasturtiums are in front of MoMA's painting, Dance I, which he kept on the back wall of his studio for 30 years. Writer, Claire Messud: When I think of Matisse, I think of his dancers, I ...

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But that was the choice Henri Matisse faced in 1939 when his wife of 30 ... Now she’s at it again with the more –superficially at least – mild-mannered Matisse. Think of her as the art world’s ...

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