Henri Matisse's 1940 oil painting "Interior with an Etruscan Vase." (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore ...

How did the expressive, colorful brushstrokes of Van Gogh influence Matisse and ultimately change the course of modern art?

The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

Everything changed for Matisse after he painted this nude Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model.

Henri Matisse painted "Woman in White" in 1946. For now, the vibrant painting is one road, stopping stateside and then overseas.

Alex Matisse wanted to go in his own creative direction with East Fork. Now he’s weaving in aspects of his famous great-grandfather’s work.

He had worked on this imposing pastoral scene for six months and had done numerous studies for it—drawings, watercolors and oil sketches. He had even prepared a full-size drawing, or cartoon, to ...

Why is Matisse studying an art form he had rejected three decades earlier in works painted by his supposed rival and tormentor? There’s an added twist: Matisse later showed Picasso the sketches.

Henri Matisse painted "Woman in White" in 1946. For now, the vibrant painting is one road, stopping stateside and then overseas.

Portrait of Marguerite, Henri Matisse, 1906-7 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons After Marguerite married the art critic Georges Duthuit in 1923, she rarely appeared in her father’s paintings.

Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.