Earlier this month, the Museum of Fine Art’s newest exhibition Matisse in the Studio opened to the public, featuring over 70 pieces by Matisse and accompanied by the the objects that inspired them.

Read the review Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window.

I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...

The poet Guillaume Apollinaire said it well: “Like the orange, Henri Matisse’s paintings are ... Films of his studio and creative process offer insight into his working methods and the ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and André Derain are shedding their copyright protections and entering the public domain in the United States ...