The subject of the painting, Matisse’s wife Amélie Matisse, knew a thing or two about hats. She is wearing a hat of her own ...
Henri Matisse’s colorful, iconoclastic 1905 portrait of his wife Amélie wearing a big hat is at the center of a thrilling ...
Matisse, “Still Life with Purro I” (1904) and “Still Life with Purro II” (1904–05) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) By displaying multiple versions of the same painting or subject ...
Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...
It’s well known that Henri Matisse was a champion of decorative painting — or perhaps I should say, the decorative in painting. His admirers will have in mind the words from his “Notes of a Painter” ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty paintings, a dozen sculptures, as many gouache cut-outs: the Beyeler Fondation’s stunning new exhibition ...