Then Matisse, no master of space problems, discovered that his mural was three feet short. On a new canvas he painted it over again the full 45 ft. long. The short one he kept.

The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...

Matisse Thybulle was one of those players Thursday, traded by the only team he had ever played for during his four-year NBA career.… It's so hard to say goodbye, but sometimes it must be done.

By some estimates, Matisse created 1,007 paintings compared with Picasso’s 13,500 paintings. As a result, there have always been “far less A+, A, or A-minus paintings, where Matisse is ...

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

Starting somewhere around 1900 — and partly thanks to Matisse — paintings started to be read for the colors, ... Matisse: The Red Studio. Through Sept. 10 at the Museum of Modern Art, ...

Facing a creative slump, Henri Matisse was transformed by a challenging commission. It changed the course of his life – and art history – forever, writes Diane Bernard.

Matisse, whose mother was ill behind enemy lines, had tried three times to enlist. He was rejected each time because of his age. ... As if to compensate, in such paintings as ...