Matisse first used paper as an aid in his composition process before marking his canvases in the 1930s. In the ‘40s he used cut-out paper shapes to illustrate a book called Jazz.

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

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

120 of Matisse's paper cut-outs -- created between 1936 and 1954 -- have been collected and will be on display at the Tate Modern in London.

Matisse was practically housebound, as a result of a succession of near-fatal illnesses. So, with shapes cut out of painted paper, he conjured up the world on his walls -- even a swimming pool ...

Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut-outs after an illness. But it was a special journey that inspired the form they would take. Alastair Sooke reports.

A major new Museum of Fine Arts exhibit reuniting the French master’s paintings and studio props prompts questions about their colonial legacies.

Alex Matisse, a renowned potter and the great-grandson of French artist Henri Matisse, was never one to rest on his last name. But now that East Fork, his Asheville, North Carolina-based company ...

This was published 11 years ago Matisse's final works a cut above As a stunning new London show reveals, Matisse’s cut-outs weren’t just pretty shapes, writes Richard Dorment.

Starting somewhere around 1900 — and partly thanks to Matisse — paintings started to be read for the colors, lines and shapes that are right there for us to see, rather than for any scene that ...

Figures could be composed of simple shapes and colors; interiors could be based on patterns. “Matisse used the making of the dance to lay new foundation for his art, to reformulate and radicalize his ...