Henri Matisse

Pablo Picasso, Femme à la montre, 1932. Detail of face. Oil on canvas. 51 ¼ x 38 inches.
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Pablo Picasso, Femme à la montre 1932, oil on canvas, 51 ¼ x 38 inches. Courtesy of Sotheby's.
Collection of Art Patron Emily Fisher Landau to Bring in $400 Million at Auction
This fall, over one hundred works from the collection of art patron Emily Fisher Landau will come to auction at Sotheby’s where they are estimated to bring in over $400 million.
Kerry James Marshall, Many Mansions, 1994
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Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911. Oil on canvas. 71 1/4 x 7′ 2 1/4 in. (181 x 219.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
MoMA’s “Matisse: The Red Studio” Unveils Artist-Patron Conflict
An interior view of Matisse’s atelier in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, "The Red Studio" (1911) serves as the centerpiece for an impressive feat of scholarship that gathers photographs,…
Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs rendering. Quinn Evans Architects.
New BMA Matisse & Drawings Study Centers to Boost Access to Collections
On December 12, the Baltimore Museum of Art will invite the public in to two new study centers—The Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies and The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the…
Henri Matisse, Detail of Purple Robe with Anemones, 1937. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 1950.
BMA Show on Friendship of Henri Matisse & Collector Etta Cone
This fall, the Baltimore Museum of Art will present the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the singular forty-three-year friendship between Baltimore collector Etta Cone and French modern…
detail of matisse divine dancer
Henri Matisse’s Divine Dancer
Unseen since 1949 and set to appear at auction for the first time, this beautiful work is a quintessential example of Henri Matisse’s sensuous odalisques.