Henri Matisse once wrote ... His early focus was on landscapes and still-life works done in a traditional style. He was greatly influenced by Jean-Simeon Chardin, an expert on still life ...

Ten years ago, a radical spine cancer surgery simultaneously saved my life and disabled me ... I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse ... swimmers. Matisse said, “I will make my own pool!” In his cutout, a plethora of abstract swimmers, divers, splashes, squiggles, waves and sea-life cut out ...