Henri Matisse

The painting Le Bonheur de vivre, by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century. Unlike anything that came before it, with its shocking colors and radical spatial distortion, the painting caused an uproar among French audiences when it was first shown in 1906, according to Martha Lucy, associate curator at the Barnes Foundation. Matisse used a lot of vibrant yellows in the...  

The painting "Le Bonheur de vivre," by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century. University of Delaware Prof. Robert L. Opila is collaborating with conservation experts at the Barnes, and at Winterthur, to study the paint's material microstructure and attempt to determine why the cadmium sulfide is changing color.  

Among the who’s who of painters included in the exhibition are Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Braque, and Marc Chagall.  

Newswise — The painting Le Bonheur de vivre, by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century. Unlike anything that came before it, with its shocking colors and radical spatial ...  

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds. The charges in a criminal complaint in Manhattan accuse Robert Scott Cook of selling 16 works of art without the owner/collector's knowledge. The artwork included watercolors, drawings, photographs, and other works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse...  

Celebrated for his vibrant painting, Henri Matisse explored the world far more deeply through the graphic arts, as a landmark exhibition reveals, writes JOHN McDONALD. Henri Matisse was almost certainly the finest colourist in modern art but the bulk of ...  

Today is the final day to see “Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of 200 works by American and European modernists including Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Vasily Kandinsky, Francis Picabia, Gino Severini, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. The exhibition makes up about half of the Alfred Stieglitz collection gifted...  

NEW YORK - A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the owner or giving him the proceeds. The charges in a criminal complaint in Manhattan accuse Robert Scott ...  

Last night Frank Crum hosted the annual fundraiser for The Clearwater Free Clinic and it was great as usual.  Many Artists participated including Jill Bauer, Robert Sutherland, Ann Henson, Laura James, Maria Weed, Lillie Neily, Cynthia Jacobson and Rand ...