ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...
Painting was ecstasy for Henri Matisse. Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush. But between about 1905 and 1917, he was on the rack. His experiments on canvas broke so ...
Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude), 1953; Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 93.3 cm, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ...
The objects in the painting are brought together in a spectacular show at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a marvel of detective work by the curators. By Roberta Smith The Museum of Modern Art’s latest ...
Matisse in Tahiti, 1930. Archives Henri Matisse, all rights reserved, Photo: F.W. Murnau Cézanne’s Three Bathers (1879-1882), acquired by Matisse in 1899 ...
Matisse, Henri Matisse, “Interior with Egyptian Curtain” (1948). Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (Click to enlarge) (Image via phillipscollection.org) ...
It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...