Modern art was born ugly ... Picasso picked a portrait of Matisse’s daughter Marguerite, and Matisse chose a still life, Pitcher, Bowl and Lemon. It was said that Picasso hung the Matisse ...

But the impoverished painter still found it a challenge ... However, while Matisse had missed out on a Van Gogh painting, he did at least already own a drawing. In the summer of 1897 he had ...

The late French artist Henri Matisse ... these with our art.” While Matisse’s female nudes are inevitably presented “from a very male perspective,” Coe believes they still “come from ...