Conor Power visits a chapel in the French region of Provence which was completely designed by artist Henri Matisse as a tribute to a woman who took care of him when he was diagnosed with cancer in 1941.

A Swiss museum has reluctantly agreed to accept part of a billion-euro art bequest from the late Cornelius Gurlitt, a German recluse whose secret collection included masterpieces looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis.

Noel Baker liked classic comedy ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ so much, he decided to base his family holiday around it. Here’s what he found…    

Cornelius Gurlitt, a reclusive German whose long-secret hoard of well over 1,000 artworks triggered an international uproar over the fate of art looted by the Nazis, died yesterday, aged 81.

Germany sought to calm a row over art looted during the Nazi era by posting images online of 25 paintings including long-lost works by Matisse, Delacroix and Rodin with the aim of finding their rightful owners.

A vast trove of modern art seized under Germany’s Nazi regime, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, has been discovered in a Munich apartment among stacks of rotting groceries, German magazine Focus reported.

Three Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse, from a Dutch museum in a raid that shocked the art world.

The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return a Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis during the Second World War.

A Banksy mural that was removed from the side of a Poundland shop in the UK in mysterious circumstances could reach more than £450,000 when it is auctioned tonight.

Artists fought the censorship of France’s cultural life, writes Tracy McNicoll

Police hunting the art thieves who stole paintings worth tens of millions from a Rotterdam museum say they are following up several tips from the public.

Thieves yesterday broke into a Rotterdam museum and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions of euro.

The impact of cinema and digital media on sketching and illustration is the theme of UCC’s Motion Capture exhibition, says Tina O’Sullivan

Every Olympics has a new emblem, and every emblem causes outrage, none more so than 2012’s jagged shards, says Richard Fitzpatrick

A New York art dealer has been charged in a US$4m fraud case today.

A SIX-FOOT Henri Matisse bronze of a nude woman seen from behind was sold for over $48 million (€34m) in New York City, a record auction price for the artist’s work.

DENMARK’S National Gallery is displaying 40 acrylic paintings by Bob Dylan that have never before been seen in public.

A lone thief stole five art masterpieces worth at least €100m by breaking into a supposedly top security major Paris museum.

A lone thief stole five paintings worth about €100m in an overnight raid on a Paris art museum.

Five paintings including masterpieces by Picasso and Matisse were stolen from a Paris museum today.

A painting by Henri Matisse sold for €32.1m, a record price for a work by the French artist at auction – at a sale of art from the estate of Yves Saint Laurent, auction house Christie’s said.

A FRENCH judge yesterday refused to halt the sale of disputed Chinese bronze fountainheads as part of an auction of the estate of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his companion Pierre Berge.

THE second volume of a biography of Henri Matisse, which took 15 years to complete, tonight became the surprise winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year prize.

ARTISTS took the pissoir this week, naming an upside-down urinal as the most influential modern art work of all time.

Six pencil drawings by the artist Henri Matisse sold for £188,995 at auction in London today.