Gathering over 300 works, an expansive exhibition at the Grand Palais spotlights the artist’s creatively fertile final years.

Henri Matisse, “ Le cheval, l’écuyère, et le clown (The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown),” plate V of XX, from Jazz, 1947, Pochoir (stencil) on Arches paper, 16 3/4” x 25 3/5” (© 2015 Succession H.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Matisse with his collection of Kuba cloths and a Samoan tapa on the wall behind him, Villa La Rêve, Vence” (1944) (© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, image courtesy Museum ...

Femme au chapeau hung at the center of a defining moment of rupture in the history of modern art, shocking audiences.

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book that the ...

The hotly anticipated "Matisse in the Studio" opens tomorrow at the Royal Academy of Arts. "Matisse in the Studio" reveals the connections between the artist's collection and his art. Photos courtesy ...

SOUTH HADLEY — The drawings of Henri Matisse must surely be among the most beautiful objects made by any human hand in the 20th century — or, come to think of it, ever. You look at them, you register ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

Matisse has been so assiduously promoted by generations of critics, curators, and historians as the prophet of the big, bold, knock-your-socks-off decorative canvas that it can come as a wonderful ...

Matisse's great-granddaughter and Diebenkorn's daughter got to see the exhibition before it opened to the public; Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, 71, and Sophie Matisse, 51, met for the first time at the ...