Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

Henri Matisse’s (1869–1954) final years were full of turmoil. Following a separation from his wife and the outbreak of World War II, the French artist was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, which ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. At times, it is easy to forget that Henri ...

French artist Henri Matisse never lets you forget you’re looking at a painting. He fills every square inch of his canvas with color and pattern so no point is any more or less important than any other ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

The art of the 20th century was dominated by two men: Pablo Picasso and the great French colorist Henri Matisse — whom Picasso regarded as his greatest rival. Born in Le Cateau, Picardy, in 1869, ...

Vantage Theater is committed to producing new works that have something to say. Its latest production is a world premiere called "The Color of Light" about artist Henri Matisse. Matisse helped ...

A visitor views Henri Matisse's artwork "Young Sailor II" during the exhibition "Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the ...