The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Announces $1.5M Enterprise Funding Award
After more than 20 years of supporting arts and arts education organizations in New York City, we’ve learned something that we must confront: excellent programs cannot grow, adapt, or endure without organizational strength to support them.
20 YEARS Matisse Foundation Report Brochure
In 2003, the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation planted a seed by making grants to six organizations including The Morgan Library and Museum, Metropolitan Opera Association, and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation. From that seed the Foundation’s grantmaking program took root, growing tenfold over the next two decades.
Matisse Foundation to Auction Pieces from Their Holdings to Benefit Arts Education
The online sale “Henri Matisse: Lines of Connection, an auction of works on paper from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation” kicks off at Christie’s on September 24. Since its founding in 1995, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation has diligently worked to fund arts education in New York City schools and share art through institutional grants […]
The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Establishes $1M UNCF Scholarship Program
UNCF is pleased to announce the establishment of The Pierre and Tana Matisse Scholarship, a significant new program that will support Black, Latinx and Indigenous college students residing in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens or Staten Island, New York.
Statement of Solidarity
The Board and Staff of The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation stand in solidarity with Black communities across the country in denouncing the profound injustice of systemic racism and its effects in our society.
Legal Assistance For New Artists
Pierre Matisse and Tana Spreti Matisse spent their lives immersed in New York’s art world. Now their foundation has donated $20,000 to help emerging artists get the legal resources they need to succeed.!
Met Gets Gift of 100 Works Collected by Son of Matisse
More than 100 works of art by the most prominent masters of the 20th century, including nearly 50 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by Henri Matisse, have been given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tana Matisse, A Force in Art Foundation (Obituary)
Maria-Gaetana Matisse, widow of the art dealer Pierre Matisse and a driving force behind the foundation that donated his vast personal archive to the Pierpont Morgan Library, died on April 7 in Manhattan. She was 58
A Pack Rat’s Art Treasures; For Morgan Library, Pierre Matisse’s Archives Are a Bonanza
During his 60 years as a dealer, Pierre Matisse exhibited some of the greatest artists of this century in his gallery in the Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street, including modern masters like Miro, Balthus, Chagall, Dubuffet, Tanguy, Mondrian, Giacometti, de Chirico and his own father, Henri Matisse.
Pierre Matisse, 89, Art Dealer and Promoter, Dies (Obituary)
Pierre Matisse, the internationally known art dealer who was the longtime champion of Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Balthus and Yves Tanguy in the United States, died Wednesday in a hospital near his home in St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, after a stroke. He was 89 years old.