Matisse had nearly a decade of radical painting under his belt in 1906, while Picasso was just emerging from his blue and rose reveries, and about to explode into Cubism. Matisse was the leader of ...

His notorious Blue Nude—a fiercely distorted picture ... I even began to take an interest in his work.” The first paintings Matisse made of Lydia combined the phenomenal virtuosity that ...

I have no information on any other purchase of French art by Hitler, or by Goering, an aficionado of modern French art. Matisse’s supreme indifference to the context in which his work was shown (and ...

Notably popular in 2019? A £140 print of his Blue Nude I, framed in black stained ash. “I love how bold Matisse’s prints are, from the Blue Nudes to his cut-out style,” says Lily Barton ...

The International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as The Armory ... cubist Nude Descending a Staircase and Henri Matisse's unconventional Blue Nude, draw particular condemnation -- both ...

Matisse valued the connection highly. The show suggests that he regarded Renoir as a mentor and responded in his own paintings to what ... a brushy expanse of deep blue water?