The old Fauve leader was then seventy-one ... of his Foundation’s teaching staff, on “The Art of Henri Matisse,” one of the biggest of all books on the artist, declared in it that in ...

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 ...