Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

It traces the artist's footsteps from his beginnings ... after undergoing abdominal surgery for cancer, Matisse turned to paper cut-out collages, with the birds and seaweed inspired by the fauna ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Jean-Claude Planchet, Artwork:© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014 ...

But then you look more closely at how it was made — what precise shapes Matisse cut the colored ... turtle’s deep red sing out. Nearby works — including a painting by Cézanne, some masks ...

John Delaney, an American from the National Gallery of Art in Washington ... It's a difficult question, which Matisse's paper cut-outs will undoubtedly help to answer. Nathaniel Herzberg ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...