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 ...

Painting was ecstasy for Henri Matisse. Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush. But between about 1905 and 1917, he was on the rack. His experiments on canvas broke so ...

The objects in the painting are brought together in a spectacular show at the Museum of Modern Art. It’s a marvel of detective work by the curators. By Roberta Smith The Museum of Modern Art’s latest ...

Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude), 1953; Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 93.3 cm, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ...

Matisse, “Still Life with Purro I” (1904) and “Still Life with Purro II” (1904–05) (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) By displaying multiple versions of the same painting or subject ...

It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...

Matisse, Henri Matisse, “Interior with Egyptian Curtain” (1948). Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 35 1/8 inches. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (Click to enlarge) (Image via phillipscollection.org) ...

Image Size 7 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches 17 x 20 inches ...