Numerous books survey Henri Matisse's paintings, drawings and sculpture in reproduction, but none paid proper attention to the artist's life before Hilary Spurling completed her involving, sympathetic ...

For a boy whose "dreams were full of color," life in Henri Matisse's industrial village is bleak. Young Henri is a source of anxiety for his hardworking parents, who fear he will never make a living; ...

A review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1909 by Hilary Spurling. With the second volume of John Richardson’s great Picasso biography already out, it was only a ...

From Fauve colors to Cubist compositions, studio-assisted cut-outs and numerous naked women, few artists have shaped our idea of modernism as much as Henri Matisse. Born on New Year’s Eve 1869 in the ...

Matisse’s friends were dying in the trenches when he met a new model. “Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things,” wrote the poet Robert Browning. “The honest thief, the tender murderer, the ...