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

Matisse, who had been the first Fauve, remained the only Fauve. As Fauvism started to disintegrate, modern painting in France ... beet fields of the north. When Henri was nearly eighteen, the ...

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 ...