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 ...

The Nazi occupiers did check poster announcements and visit art exhibitions before ... There is no question that Matisse managed to steer clear of the Nazis by living in the South of France, mostly in ...

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 ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse has become hugely popular among a certain type of 20- and 30-something woman. But what’s behind the revival? Stylist’s Moya Crockett (a self-professed “M ...

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 ...