Anytime Michelle Yeoh steps onto a red carpet the fashion world takes ... strapless Balenciaga gown in an invigorating shade of Matisse blue. Artful draping and a long train added to the drama.

His notorious Blue Nude—a fiercely distorted ... wrote in disgust when the French state bought Odalisque in Red Culottes in 1922. Sembat’s view of Matisse at this stage as an essentially ...