Some 60 drawings by Henri Matisse went under the hammer at Christie’s on October 8, raising more than $2.5 million to benefit New York art nonprofits. Titled Henri Matisse: Lines of Connection, the ...
The subject of the painting, Matisse’s wife Amélie Matisse, knew a thing or two about hats. She is wearing a hat of her own ...
The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...
The artist Ellsworth Kelly said that Pablo Picasso made him want to paint, but Henri Matisse made him want to draw. In 2014, Kelly was given access to Matisse’s drawings in the Pierre and Tana Matisse ...
Henri Matisse - Femme en fauteuil (Woman in a chair), 1935 Pencil on paper 346.203120 (c) 2014 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Visitors ...
, on view at the BMA through Jan. 19, play a similar role, as if a dad were to whip out a sketchbook full of little drawings of his kid. Only, that dad is one of the most famous artists of the 20th ...
The dramatic colours of the European south seem to have had an almost erotic appeal to the straitlaced northerner. The second thing to come to mind may be spontaneity. Matisse's paintings have a kind ...
Today, American artist Ellsworth Kelly and Frenchman Henri Matisse are recognized as two of the most significant artists of the 20th century. Yet, their lifetimes overlapped for a mere 21 years; ...
Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen” is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from Wednesday, May 20 through Sept.
Matisse's great-granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the ...
Hutchinson’s husband paid 8,000 francs for the work and it remained in the family estate A charcoal portrait of Mary Hutchinson, elegant in a designer blouse and leaning gracefully on one elbow, by ...