Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original …

Dec 13, 2025 · Henri Matisse (born December 31, 1869, Le Cateau, Picardy, France—died November 3, 1954, Nice) was an artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century. …

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a pioneering figure in 20th-century art, whose bold innovations using color and form as structural, almost sculptural elements, redefined the visual language of modern …

Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th …

Oct 1, 2004 · Matisse’s creativity extended into the area of graphic arts and book illustration, the latter begun when he was already in his sixties, with the illustrations to Stéphane Mallarmé’s Poésies …

History recalls Henri Matisse as one of the giants of twentieth-century art. Readily identified with the fauvist (wild beasts) art style and later with paper cut-outs, Matisse continued experiments with color …

Oct 8, 2025 · This guide covers 10 must-see Matisse masterpieces, from The Red Studio to La Blouse Roumaine to Blue Nude II, with insights into their meaning and museum locations.

Discover how the artist’s influences and techniques evolved during his career. Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century. The French artist used color as the...

Introduced to painting while recovering from appendicitis at age 19, Henri Matisse abandoned his job as a law clerk to compose conventional Dutch-inspired still lifes and interiors using a somber palette.

Sep 12, 2025 · One of history's great colourists, French artist Henri Matisse was a titan of 20th-century art, his work spans painting, sculpture, printmaking and collage