In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri Matisse, stranded in Nice on the Mediterranean coast, sent a moving letter to his younger ...

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from throughout the career of one of modern art's godfathers. The Fondation ...

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 woman of Arles ...

Henri Matisse finished with a flourish to make a winning start to his three-year-old campaign in the Ballylinch Stud “Red Rocks” Stakes at Leopardstown. The Wootton Bassett colt took high rank ...