When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was meant to be a major statement—a “masterpiece.” It was the only ...

Matisse, for his “Woman with ... this angular simplification was the “Piano Lesson,” of 1916. This is now in the New York Museum of Modern Art, one of his most famous paintings, and is ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical ...

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...

When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was ...