Design Observer has published an illuminating, long-lost interview with French artist Henri Matisse. Read some highlights here.

Henri Matisse, with Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, trans. from the French by Chris Miller. J. Paul Getty Trust, $45 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60606-129-9 In 1941, Swiss art critic Courthion ...

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

In August of 1946, after the end of World War II, an art-obsessed American soldier named Jerome Seckler interviewed legendary French painter Henri Matisse. At the time, Matisse had been suffering from ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage. An ...