Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day.

Matisse After Matisse’s death in 1954 the work was traced, unpinned from the walls, and sent to the Parisian studio of Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet for mounting. Decisions about the specifics of the ...

Whilst Cézanne devotees attracted his frustration, Sickert reserved his sharpest criticism for two new names: ‘Matisse has all the worst art-school tricks’, he wrote, whilst he simply dismissed ...

1927) is one of the art world’s true pioneers, bringing together a spirit of adventure, a detailed anthropological approach and deep knowledge to become one of the foremost specialists in African and ...

In 1904 he met and became friends with renowned artist, Pablo Picasso, who also became one of his rivals. Although similar, the two artists had one major difference – Picasso painted from imagination, ...

GLENN LOWRY: Hello, I’m Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art. Welcome to Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. In the final decade of his life, Matisse invented a groundbreaking new method of ...

With the beginning of 2025, paintings by the likes of Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo and André Derain are entering the public ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.

January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.

After becoming disabled from his own cancer surgery, Matisse enjoyed the most productive, creative and revolutionary years of ...

Ring in the New Year by exploring the artistic treasures now in the public domain! Discover how iconic works by Matisse, ...