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FeatureHenri Matisse
Sophie Matisse retraces her great-grandfather's footsteps for emotional BBC film
In an interview for The Week in Art Podcast, Sophie reveals how the support of Henri Matisse's wife Amélie became a central theme of Becoming Matisse
NewsPreview
Matisse birth anniversary marked by blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou
Rarely seen works show how the modern master combined text and image
NewsMuseums
Baltimore Museum of Art to create a Matisse study centre
Museum will draw on its 1,200 works by the artist to help further scholarship
ArchiveNazi loot
Seattle Art Museum sues New York dealers Knoedler
The heirs of Parisian dealer Paul Rosenberg demand the return of a Matisse stolen during World War II
News
Multi-million-dollar Matisse fails to find a buyer at Toronto auction
The French Modern master’s oil painting Femme assise sur un balcon was withdrawn from a Canadian sale after bidding stalled below the reserve price
NewsLaw
US Supreme Court declines to review a challenge to the National Gallery's ownership of a Matisse
Grandchildren of muse depicted in 1908 painting exhaust their US appeals
NewsObituaries
Matisse expert and archivist Wanda de Guebriant has died, aged 69
The only authorised authenticator of the artist’s work started her 40-year career as an assistant to Matisse’s daughter, Marguerite Duthuit
NewsLaw
Court rejects claim to Matisse owned by National Gallery
Rebuffing heirs, an appeals panel in New York says the court lacks jurisdiction
NewsArt market
Rockefeller heavy-hitters pull in $646m for charity at Christie's
Evening auction featuring the family's most valuable works set new records for Monet and Matisse
News
US university museum announces controversial sell-off
Christie’s sale of 46 works from La Salle collection, by artists such as Matisse and Degas, has angered arts professionals
NewsAcquisitions
Rockefeller's Matisse and Léger fireplaces reunited in Houston
Museum of Fine Arts confirms acquisition to bring together Modern masterpieces originally commissioned for billionaire's Manhattan penthouse
NewsHenri Matisse
Victory for Matisse family in $4.5m cut-out battle with dealer
Paris art dealer Jérôme Le Blay ordered to hand over works to artist’s descendants
NewsHenri Matisse
Matisse’s heirs claim two cut-outs worth $4.5m
French appeal court to decide case brought by company based in Hong Kong against artist’s family
ArchiveExhibitions
Objects from Matisse’s studio travel for first time
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will be the first place outside of France to have this honour
ArchiveTate
Longer shows pay off for Tate as Matisse brings in the numbers
The Cut-Outs retrospective was seen by 563,000 visitors
ArchiveHenri Matisse
Tate Modern’s Matisse show is a cut above
London, and then New York, will see the largest number of Matisse’s paper constructions ever assembled
ArchiveRestitution
Ongoing Nazi loot restitution claims
A look at some of the artworks subject to ongoing international restitution claims
ArchiveMuseums
Rivera’s MoMA murals revisited
After 80 years, works by the Mexican artist known for his volatile relationship with Frida Kahlo are again on view
ArchiveTate
The story behind Matisse's Backs: Tate's bargain buy
The gallery paid £11,000 for the four bronze sculptures in 1957 - Christie's just sold one for $48.8m
ArchiveArt market
Lesser-known artists exhibited alongside the big names of Matisse, Picasso, and Miró at Basel
Blue-chip dealers have been using Basel as an opportunity to build the potential stars of the future
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage
The exhibition underlines art history’s—and the Hermitage’s—debt to Ivan Morozov and Sergej Shchukin who commissioned and collected many of the works
ArchiveHenri Matisse
Fondation Beyeler unveils plans to allow observation of Matisse restoration
A conservation studio will be opened to educate the public about the costly process of reconstructing Matisse's Acanthes
ArchiveForgeries
New York- and Miami-based dealer Giuseppe Concepcion accused over multiple forgeries
Concepcion is alleged to have sold fake Matisses and Calders among others, complete with forged certificates of authenticity
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse
The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works
ArchiveAuctions
London Impressionist and Modern art sales report: Modigliani and Matisse overtake soft-focus Impressionists
Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro and Degas are yesterday’s stars
ArchiveColonial art
Roger Benjamin's study into the colonial relationship between Modernism and Orientalism
This study investigates how North African artists were influenced by French artists—and vice versa
ArchiveWhat's on
What's on: Matisse Picasso: two giants of 20th-century bookmaking
Ursus Books Ltd Matisse Villon C.G. Boerner The sculptures of Picasso Gagosian Gallery
ArchiveExhibitions
Sean Scully at LA Louver, Los Angeles
In the tradition of numerous art-historical masters, Scully takes inspiration from his time in Morocco
ArchiveExhibitions
Two upcoming exhibitions: Images of Women and Devil’s Pageant
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
ArchiveLooted art
Hector Feliciano seeks $6.8 million from Rosenberg heirs for finding Nazi loot
The complaint demands a 17.5% finders fee for aiding the recovery of stolen artworks
ArchiveRestitution
Knoedler and Seattle Art Museum settle over Matisse lawsuit
In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis
ArchiveExhibitions
Putting Matisse and Picasso back in the ring at Tate Modern
Matisse wanted his art to be like a comfortable easy chair, while Picasso preferred to think of art as a weapon. But did these statements correspond with reality?
ArchiveLooting
Restitution battles rage from Seattle to Paris to Budapest to New Zealand
Matisse Odalisque restored to the Rosenberg family
ArchiveArt market
Test your market savvy at the Courtauld's "The value of art"
The exhibition challenges you to decide which work of art is more valuable
ArchiveRestitution
French relent over Rosenberg war loot claims
A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed
ArchiveBooks
Books: The market muscles its way back onto the agenda, with Bacon and the body keeping pace
Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe
ArchiveExhibitions
The Kimbell explores Picasso and Matisse's (not so) gentle friendship
As the Tate and MoMA prepare their mammoth exhibition of works by the two artists in 2002 the Kimbell steps into the ring first with a similar, but smaller, show of its own
ArchiveExhibitions
Behind the scenes at MoMA with John Elderfield and Kirk Varnedoe
Exhibitions, projects, budgets, and attendance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
ArchiveArt Basel
A teeny bit middle-aged: Art Basel 1997
Our correspondent warns against doing what the auction houses do just as well
ArchiveExhibitions
What's on in NYC: Best current exhibitions, October 1996
Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein
ArchiveExhibitions
Two concurrent exhibitions to open at the Museum Fredericianum
Works from the Renaissance to the Baroque can be seen alongside Andy Warhol
ArchiveAcquavella Galleries
Giacometti retrospective to be held at New York's Acquavella Galleries Inc.
Acquavella's good name has guaranteed the participation of several distinguished lenders
ArchiveExhibitions
Matisse exhibition moves from MoMA to Pompidou Centre
Initial plans to tour the exhibition to Russia have now been shelved
ArchiveExhibitions
TransFormed: Ernst Beyeler holds exhibition that disintegrates boundary between painting and sculpture
Beyeler, doyen of Basel dealers, has taken over the Kunstmuseum and the Kunsthalle to accommodate this event
ArchiveForgeries
Matisse forgeries in the market is nothing new
Dealers fear more forged prints may emerge