Expert View: While earlier generations of collectors focused on Matisse’s 1920s Nice paintings, with their lush female figures and interiors of famous hotels, supply issues have led contemporary ...

The sixth edition of the event is taking place at several venues throughout the southern French city, from the Villa Arson to ...

In 1930, Henri Matisse, one of the giants of 20th-Century art, found himself in a discouraging creative slump. At the age of 60, the painter had been living in Nice, France, for 13 years, after ...

They met in 1917, when Matisse began to winter in Nice, near Renoir’s home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, and were friends for the last two years of Renoir’s life, despite a nearly 30-year age difference ...

Henri Matisse moved to Nice in 1917 to distance himself from wartime activity. And like other artists of the period, he began working in the style recognized as the "return to order." Modern artists ...

In 1911 Matisse created a self-enclosed world in his studio by showing 11 earlier works of art, without the presence of the artist. The Nice images look very different from “The Red Studio ...

“Matisse in the 1930s” is a major curatorial achievement for the museum, the result of a seven-year partnership with two museums in France: the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, where the artist found ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents “Matisse in the 1930s,” the most important American exhibition of the French artist in years.

When Matisse created his mural-sized “Creole Dancer” in 1950, he wrote to his art dealer son Pierre that he couldn’t bear to sell it to him because he was sure he wouldn’t do something so ...

In 1930, Henri Matisse, one of the giants of 20th-Century art, found himself in a discouraging creative slump. At the age of 60, the painter had been living in Nice, France, for 13 years, after ...