“Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit,” which opened Monday at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, tells several stories, not the least of which is the unusual pairing of the French artist’s Inuit ...

A rare charcoal drawing by French artist Henri Matisse, one of the highlights of Sotheby’s impressionist and modern art evening sale in London on June 19, is estimated to fetch more than £2 million, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pair of Yup'ik masks are displayed at right, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, as curator Sean Mooney ...

A portrait by Henri Matisse hanging in the National Gallery of London is the subject of a lawsuit by the subject’s heirs, who claim that the painting was looted during World War II. They filed a suit ...

Considered one of Matisse’s most important muses, Henriette Darricarrère became most well known for the odalisque poses she modeled for the artist with her arms often folded behind her head or raised ...

Britain’s National Gallery is to face an appeal in the United States Supreme Court after being sued for the return of a “stolen” Matisse portrait by descendents of the painting’s subject. Three ...

Henri Matisse’s colorful, iconoclastic 1905 portrait of his wife Amélie wearing a big hat is at the center of a thrilling ...

Annotated in pencil 'Epreuve de l'Atelier Mourlot' (Atelier Mourlot Proof) bottom left and 'lithographie originale de Henri Matisse Projet de Couverture pour "Portraits", 1954'. Estate stamp by ...

Portrait of Mrs. ('Babe' Dorothy) Paley, a 1936 ink drawing done in advance of the oil portrait commissioned by CBS executive William Paley of his wife. Compared to the artist’s earlier works, this ...

Ravishing colors, flowing lines, sinuous bodies: Henri Matisse made it all look effortless. But it wasn’t: Throughout his career Matisse wrestled with the fundamentals of painting—he revisited the ...