The exhibition places special emphasis on Matisse's exploration of the female figure. More than twenty works focus on the nude across the 1920s and 1930s.

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 ...

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. The painting’s primary color is a ...

The artist's most famous works are in museums, and his collectors can be fickle. Recently, his late work has been reassessed. Alvin Langdon Coburn, portrait of Henri Matisse, 1913. Via Wikimedia ...

Fresh widow : the idea of the window as a "point of departure" / Maria Müller-Schareck -- Views out, in, and through : a brief history of the window up to the modern era / Rolf Selbmann -- The window ...

See the two sculptures, both with bad posture, on the far right side of this painting by Henri Matisse? Now, to the right of those, do you see a smudgy, spindly, gray rectangle embedded within a white ...