Singapore (CNN) — Before the ravages of World War II, Paris was the center of the art world. The city’s salons, schools and cafes attracted painters from around the globe, with Pablo Picasso, Marc ...

Henri Matisse, Tête de fillette (Marguerite), 1906; Bronze, 16 x 17 x 15 cm., Paris, Musée d’Orsay Donation de Madame Jean Matisse à l’État français pour dépôt au musée Matisse ...

As an apprentice to a potter, what Alex Matisse discovered shaped him like clay itself. "When I walked in, I knew that this is what I was going to do," he said. "We were told pots have skin and ...

“It’s always been clay,” Alex Matisse told me of his choice medium. The material suits him: he’s a trained potter and a co-founder of East Fork, a ceramics company rooted in traditio ...

Being the great-grandson of French painter Henri Matisse carries with it, let’s just say, some creative pressure. That’s why Alex Matisse forged his own path. In 2009, after a ceramics apprenticeship, ...

Alex Matisse grew up in the Northeastern United States, and being a Matisse meant being immersed in art. It’s what his family talked about at the dinner table; the walls of his home were full of ...

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) winner Henri Matisse is entered for his 3-year-old debut March 30 in the Leopardstown Two Thousand Guineas Trial Stakes (G3) at Leopardstown, a seven-furlong turf ...

In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of ...

Now, Fleury is acknowledging the influence Henri Matisse has had on her oeuvre, creating work in response to and in dialogue with the French artist in her new London exhibition:. ‘Drawing on Matisse’ ...

In the late 1940s, an infirm and increasingly despondent Henri Matisse made repeat journeys along the French Riviera from his hideaway in Vence to Antibes. It was a most peculiar pilgrimage.

Asheville, North Carolina (CNN) — His devotees call themselves “Potheads,” and they feverishly collect and trade his pottery online. He says he’s just trying to build an ethical brand that ...