Shop art print and framed art Sorrow of the King, 1952 by Henri Matisse
Subjects : Music
Keywords : Bible, Fauvism, French Riviera, dance, king
(Ref : 141892) © Succession H.Matisse 2020 / Photo : RMN
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Sorrow of the King, 1952
The Sorrows of the King is a collage using cut out paper shapes by Henri Matisse from 1952. It was made from paper he had coloured with gouache paint and is mounted on canvas. Its area is 292 x 386 cm. It was his final self-portrait. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. By 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. The Sorrows of the King is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the cutouts.
The British composer Peter Seabourne b.1960 wrote a septet The Sadness of the King (2007) inspired by this late paper cut, performed in Chicago and by members of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Lahti, [...]
This artwork is a drawing from the modern period. It belongs to the fauvism style.
« Sorrow of the King, 1952 » is kept at Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Find the full description of Sorrow of the King, 1952 by Henri Matisse on Wikipedia.
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