If Henri Matisse was regarded as the father of modern art at the dawn of the 20th ... old masters in the Louvre and keener still to capture Parisian life on paper and canvas.

In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist Henri ... model, painting became the central core of her life as it was of Matisse’s.

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare ... minimally in the artistic life of Paris, and confined their nefarious activities to slashing paintings ...

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri Matisse ... (1906-07), a vigorous still life playing ...