Welcome to Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. In the final decade of his life, Matisse invented a groundbreaking new method of making art. Beginning in the 1940s, he began to create works by cutting shapes ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 Image:© National Gallery of Art, Washington. Artwork:© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014 ...

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

As Matisse became older, he began to work with brightly coloured paper and would ‘paint with scissors’ to cut out shapes, animals, leaves, dancers and flowers and then arrange them. One of Matisse's ...

The room itself was lined with tan burlap, a popular wall covering of the time. Matisse then cut his own divers, swimmers, and sea creatures out of paper painted in an ultramarine blue. The blue forms ...

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

The Snail is a collage made from pieces of brightly painted paper that have been cut out and stuck onto a canvas. But Matisse also made paintings and sculptures. This painting was made much earlier in ...

“I love how bold Matisse’s prints are, from the Blue Nudes to his cut-out style,” says Lily Barton, a 20-something nurse from Bristol. “However, when I saw the line drawings I loved how ...

Matisse’s vibrant works are celebrated for their extraordinary richness and luminosity of colour. For his cut-outs he used paper that had been hand-painted with gouache, laid down in abstract or ...

Matisse began painting in rich bright colours after spending time in the south of France. He settled there permanently in 1940. After undergoing two major operations in 1941 he was left bed-ridden but ...

Fifty paintings, a dozen sculptures, as many gouache cut-outs: the Beyeler Fondation’s stunning new exhibition Matisse: ...