Inspired by Henri Matisse, these prints are as pretty as they ... once wrote that he sought to create art that would be “a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair”.

Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

The gesture is confusing. Why is Matisse studying an art form he had rejected three decades earlier in works painted by his supposed rival and tormentor? There’s an added twist: Matisse later ...

with the birds and seaweed inspired by the fauna and flora he observed during his trip to Tahiti in 1930. Matisse occupied a ...