By the 1920s, the two painters had drifted apart. Matisse was ensconced in a hotel in Nice painting luxurious odalisques and drawing portraits of women in plumed hats. “The sun-drenched fauve ...

In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri Matisse, stranded in Nice on the Mediterranean coast, sent a moving letter to his younger ...

outdoors—in Renoir’s studio influenced his approach to figure painting, and that the older man’s mentorship provoked “a newfound sensuality” in Matisse’s works made in Nice.

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

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...

Visitors primarily appreciate the aesthetics of Musée Matisse, an airy 17th-century ... artifacts that once belonged to the artist, who settled in Nice in 1917. Keep in mind: Some of the ...