A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from ...

The French painter, sculptor and designer, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... ‘There is no gap between my earlier pictures and my cut-outs’, Matisse wrote; ‘I have only reached a form reduced to the ...

After undergoing two major operations in 1941 he was left bed-ridden but continued to make paper cut-outs. These allowed him to 'draw' into the colour. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Basel, Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via ...

That valuable Racing League Handicap at Newcastle had looked much more competitive than the two novices Ten Pounds had won.

Henri Matisse was a 5-6 favourite to complete his hat-trick and quickened up smartly on his first appearance over seven furlongs to get up and beat Hotazhell by a length. Paddy Power cut the ...

Matisse was born at Cateau-Cambrésis (Nord ... Paris and Nice (where he died), producing prints and book illustrations, sculpture and the paper cut-outs, which are among the best known of his later ...

Scorthy Champ inflicted a shock defeat on the previously unbeaten Henri Matisse in the Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes ...

As Hilary Spurling writes in the second and concluding volume of her already acclaimed life of the great French painter, ‘It is not the least mysterious thing about Henri Matisse that he has had no ...

Following surgery for cancer in 1941, Matisse struggled to stand by an easel and instead made cut-outs while confined to his bed or wheelchair. In 1942 he was commissioned to make a book of colour ...

With the closing of the show, no subsequent crowds had a chance to find out how they would react to its timeless aphrodisia, because the picture, which Matisse ... When Henri was nearly eighteen ...

The Irish Champions Festival moves to Curragh for day two and Henri Matisse, who contests the Group ... Wootton Bassett and Immortal Verse, he ran out a cosy winner of the Group 2 Futurity Stakes.