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Metropolitan Museum of Art curator-at-large Dr. Denise Murrell stands near Henri Matisse's "Woman in White." The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection.
A collection of works by Henri Matisse, rarely seen outside of France, is reason enough to make the trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston this spring. But Matisse in the Studio, running April 9 ...
In 1898, Henri Matisse received a silver chocolate pot as a wedding gift. The pot would later star in numerous works by the renowned French artist, including the never-before-exhibited watercolor ...
Sister Jacques-Marie, a Dominican nun whose friendship with artist Henri Matisse led him to create the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, France, died Monday. She was 84, according to Barbara Freed, a ...
Modern art masters Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse met in France to talk about their work for a couple of years starting in 1917. “Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at ...
French Moderns will feature notable works of art such as Henri Matisse's "Flowers" (1906), which was included in the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the first major exhibition of ...
French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own ...