In the last years of his life, Matisse -- one of the most famous painters in the world -- all but gave up painting for these huge, colorful collages made out of cut paper. Most people think of ...

But he was a lion nonetheless. Increasingly unable to paint, Matisse, working with assistants, began to create large-scale paper cut-outs in his trademark vivid hues. What was initially a coping ...

Matisse cut shapes out of paper freehand, arranging and rearranging the forms until he was satisfied, then glued the compositions to paper, canvas and board. Now, 120 of Matisse’s paper cut-outs ...

Opening at Tate Modern on April 17, the exhibition Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs—which will travel to MoMA in New York this October—follows the development of Matisse’s cut-outs, from their ...

The answer is unclear, but there were hundreds of them hoping to catch a last glimpse of the sprawling Henri Matisse "Cut Outs" exhibition before it shutters on Tuesday, February 10 at the Museum ...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the strangest youthquake the world has ever seen—a youthquake dreamed up by an artist in his seventies and sustained straight ...

Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut-outs after an illness. But it was a special journey that inspired the form they would take. Alastair Sooke reports. Last month an important exhibition ...

They include the famous blue nudes — lithe-limbed female forms, cut in ... "You can't walk out of here without being in a good mood," the artist's great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse said Monday ...

They are now the most-celebrated of all of Matisse’s artworks, but at the time, many considered the cut-outs to be decorative, infantile even, with one critic viciously describing them as ...

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They are now the most-celebrated of all of Matisse’s artworks, but at the time, many considered the cut-outs to be decorative, infantile even, with one critic viciously describing them as ...