Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Of all the great masterpieces of early 20th-century art, Henri Matisse ...
One of the great subjects for painters throughout history has particular relevance to summer–a group of figures about to wade or swim in a body of water. These paintings of “bathers,” as they’ve ...
CHICAGOCHICAGO — A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close – sometimes even microscopic – look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career of France’s ...
Matisse in Tahiti, 1930. Archives Henri Matisse, all rights reserved, Photo: F.W. Murnau Cézanne’s Three Bathers (1879-1882), acquired by Matisse in 1899 ...
Although Matisse’s “Bathers by a River,” was long overshadowed by several Picassos at the Art Institute of Chicago, the French master is finally getting his due for the massive layered work and many ...
CHICAGO — For much of the past century, two distinct versions of Henri Matisse have vied for the attention of the public, resulting in two different views of his art. On the one hand, there is the ...
You’ve seen this painting before. If not in books, then perhaps in person. Chances are, if you’ve wandered the Art Institute of Chicago’s modern European painting collections in the last 50 years, you ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Simon Kelly of the St. Louis Art Museum talks about one of Henri Matisse's most famous artworks, part of the new exhibition, ...