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The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris have just opened a new show dedicated to Matisse's relationship with his eldest daughter Marguerite.
Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.
The French Riviera's characteristic Mediterranean architecture with its light facades and its captivating coastal scenery ...
In the year that copyright on the French artist’s work expires, an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris aims to ...
After the age of Impressionism, which was filled with soft brushstrokes, beautiful sceneries, and the sunrise and gardens of ...
How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized ...
The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...
Marli Van Breda survived a murder attack by her brother, Henri, in January 2015 in South Africa. He killed their parents and an older brother. Marli, the family's youngest member, escaped death but ...
MF Husain’s 1954 masterpiece Gram Yatra has become India’s most expensive artwork, selling for Rs 119 crore at Christie’s. The painting, originally gifted to Oslo University Hospital, was reportedly ...
The exhibition “The Cubist Cosmos – From Picasso to Léger” at Kunstmuseum Basel traces the evolution of Cubism from 1908 to the years after World War I.
Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Amedeo Modigliani. While their influences, too, are visible in the motifs and the Cubist style, the work remains rooted in the Indian idiom. 'If you're looking for a ...
So that line that you see between the ink drawing and the painting is actually the corner of his room. Writer, Claire Messud: Matisse always started from observation. Then what can you still do? What ...