It is the blue of sapphires ... features Matisse’s earliest responses to the sea. The paintings are modest — but momentous. Matisse had grown up in a weaving town in France’s gray and ...

In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to ...

Back in 1899 Matisse had written to his younger brother Auguste to ask for help: “If you want to use your savings to buy a corker of a painting, I’ve found one. It’s cheap and it’s very ...