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 ...

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri Matisse ... (1906-07), a vigorous still life playing ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... Dive in while you still can. Mr. Esplund, the author of “The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art” (Hachette), writes about ...

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 ...

Examining figurative art works by Auguste Rodin and Henri Matisse helps me ... It is a surprisingly exciting life for someone who spends so much time standing still! August will mark four years ...