that Blue Poles was Pollock’s magnum opus and that the sale would be on par with the arrival of the Henri Matisse masterpiece The Dance in Russia. Expert appraisals were commissioned ...

Previously Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford ... and co-curated Henri Matisse: the Cut Outs in 2014. Nicholas Serota has been a member of the Visual ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

GLENN LOWRY: This work, Two Dancers, is one of Matisse’s earliest experiments with cut paper. Curator Samantha Friedman: SAMANTHA FRIEDMAN: Early in the cut-out practice, Matisse was using cut ...

GLENN LOWRY: The female form was an important subject for Matisse throughout his career. Here he shapes the body out of color, delineating a woman’s figure with the sweep of his scissors. JODI ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage.

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...

The gallery also features works from world-renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein and Henri Matisse to name a few, while downstairs it has extensive space for live ...

As the reigning monarch, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, 69, has overseen a dynasty of immense wealth, and amassed a staggering fortune in his own right throughout his time on the throne ...