A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

The much-heralded exhibition of Matisse cut-outs currently at the Museum of Modern Art was previously at the Tate Modern, with a few less items than here, but it broke all attendance records and was ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Even when he was in his 80s and in frail health, the French painter, sculptor and, latterly, master of painted cut-out paper Henri Matisse, still had it. LONDON (Reuters) - Even ...

The exhibition places special emphasis on Matisse's exploration of the female figure. More than twenty works focus on the ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...

When Paris galleries became suspect because of the Nazi occupation of France in the World War II, Matisse mounted his own exhibition at home in his studio and proposed to appeal directly to the public ...

Henri Matisse, The Swimming Pool, late summer 1952. (Photo courtesy Museum of Modern Art) After a blockbuster run as the centerpiece of MoMA’s recent exhibition “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” ...

Walk into the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, and you find yourself surrounded by more than a hundred images that dance and sing, swim and squirm—not to mention the lithe contortions of the ...

Sophie Matisse, great granddaughter of Henri Matisse, poses with his artwork "Blue Nude III" (Nu Bleu III) (L) and "Blue Nude II" (Nu Bleu II) at the Tate Modern gallery in London April 14, 2014.

LONDON (Reuters) - Even when he was in his 80s and in frail health, the French painter, sculptor and, latterly, master of painted cut-out paper Henri Matisse, still had it. That, in part, is what an ...