The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...

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Henri Matisse, “ Le cheval, l’écuyère, et le clown (The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown),” plate V of XX, from Jazz, 1947, Pochoir (stencil) on Arches paper, 16 3/4” x 25 3/5” (© 2015 Succession H.

Olivier Berggruen, Editor, Max Hollein, Editor, Henri Matisse, Author Prestel Publishing $70 (176p) ISBN 978-3-7913-2799-0 The genius of Henri Matisse is captured in this vibrant collection of his ...

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibit of art books by Henri Matisse. The French artist created a number of these books in the latter part of his life in the 1930s and 1940s. Bechtler ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

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 ...

When Paris galleries became suspect because of the Nazi occupation of France in the World War II, Matisse mounted his own exhibition at home in his studio and proposed to appeal directly to the public ...

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 ...

In the final decades of a prolific career, modern artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) took up book illustration. This exhibition celebrates our 2024 acquisition of Jazz, Matisse's 1947 artist book on the ...