Matisse, Henri

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on display at Tate Modern in London through September 7.

This was the city that shaped the careers of so many of his idols, like Henri Matisse and Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet.

But Henri Matisse was more bourgeois family man than he was radical artist.

It was not till he came on to Henri Matisse that he again found himself in the familiar world of pure art.

With Henri Matisse we have not to deplore the deliquescence of a great talent, for we have no reason to suppose he ever had any.

Cézanne is one of the greatest colourists that ever lived; Henri-Matisse is a great colourist.

Henri-Matisse is another painter who has received short shrift from the reviewers.

Whatever people may think of the art of Henri Matisse, his fame is beyond cavil.