Tag: Henri Matisse

  • Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

    This exhibition of Kelly’s work seeks to cut to the core of his practice, primarily through two sets of extraordinary lithographs from the mid-1960s, and traces a compelling link between his figurative and abstract work

  • Patrick Heron

    Patrick Heron’s postwar abstraction places figure and ground on an equal footing and exploits the all-important edge between forms and colours to create intense expressions of musicality and emotion

  • A New Era: Scottish Modern Art, 1900-1950

    At a time when the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe is at stake, this exhibition of the artistic dialogue between Scotland and the continent is illuminating and inspiring

  • Cézanne Portraits

    A deep humanity surfaces in this outstanding exhibition of more than 50 of Cézanne’s portraits

  • Matisse in the Studio

    This exhibition tells the story of Matisse’s collecting habits, but fails to conjure up the joy of discovery

  • Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’

    The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse

  • Masterpiece Fair 2017

    The fair is a theatrical display of extravagance, peppered with instantly recognisable works by big names, which it is a joy to stumble across. But there are also rarer treasures, from a previously unseen Andy Warhol sketch to a recently…

  • Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

    While Vanessa Bell stands strong as an artist in her own right, her art can nevertheless not be separated from her life at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group

  • Toby Ziegler: ‘In half an hour, you can undo an entire month’s work’

    Toby Ziegler explains his processes of painting and sanding, and using Google’s reverse image search to create works with layers of geological exploration

  • The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam

    He fought in the Spanish civil war, was exiled from France by the Nazis and returned to his native Cuba to find it utterly changed. His genius was to turn his experiences into a unique portrait of his time and…