It is the blue of sapphires ... features Matisse’s earliest responses to the sea. The paintings are modest — but momentous. Matisse had grown up in a weaving town in France’s gray and ...

The color began appearing in Western art in the Middle Ages ... Unwell and nearing the end of his life, Matisse, too, produced a famous blue series: his fluid “Blue Nudes,” a group of abstract ...

I have no information on any other purchase of French art by Hitler, or by Goering, an aficionado of modern French art. Matisse’s supreme indifference to the context in which his work was shown (and ...

Notably popular in 2019? A £140 print of his Blue Nude I, framed in black stained ash. “I love how bold Matisse’s prints are, from the Blue Nudes to his cut-out style,” says Lily Barton ...

It also owns 50 paintings, some 20 sculptures ... which manufactured Matisse's gouaches, announced that the earthenware blue was indeed ultramarine blue. The other question has to do with the ...