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 Nice, France. Yet the project almost didn’t get off the ground. In a personal account now in the Matisse Archives in France, the artist’s assistant, Lydia Delectorskaya, related that one ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable ... ‘I think papa’s used up the light of Nice’,” Barat-Mabille says. Marguerite clearly thought her father ...

An exhibition at Paris's Musée d'Art Moderne showcases the many portraits the painter made of his daughter. With her as a model, he experimented with different styles and sought to uncover the mystery ...

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 ...

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris have just opened a new show dedicated to Matisse's relationship with his eldest daughter Marguerite.

takes a broadly chronological view of the artist's evolving visual language. More Vieira da Silva's Le Jeu de cartes (1937, the card game) Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father’s Eyes ...