How did the expressive, colorful brushstrokes of Van Gogh influence Matisse and ultimately change the course of modern art?

Matisse’s paintings were on view with other Fauve painters at the Salon d’Automne of 1943 and in the group shows of Galerie Charpentier. A number of his works were included in the show of "Les Fauves" ...

When Henri Matisse headed to Morocco in the winter of 1912, he was at a particularly low ebb. “It was crunch time for him,” says Jeff Koehler, the author of Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of ...

But Matisse’s brush offers a remarkably vivid depiction of such a quiet scene, boldly painting “in the vibrant, colourful style characteristic of Fauvism,” according to the statement.

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...

Just a bright green stripe, it’s a direct homage to Matisse’s The Green Stripe that helped earn the Fauves their name.

An American woman living in Paris, old enough to have known Matisse well since the Fauve Salon days, recently said of him reflectively, “His life has been himself and his painting, and nothing else.

Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art's godfathers.

Maurice Denis compared seeing a Matisse painting to “the vertigo that a white wall or esplanade cause at high noon in the summer”, and so it feels throughout the Beyeler’s glassy, light ...