Member Tour | Matisse’s Jazz: Rhythms in Color

Join your fellow SCA Members for a tour of Matisse's Jazz in Galleries 124-127.

In the early 1940s, decades into his artistic career, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) turned his focus to a new medium: cut paper.

He had become bedridden and unable to paint following an excruciating abdominal surgery, and cut paper allowed him to continue to create in his relatively sedentary state. Encouraged by his friend, the book publisher Tériade (the pseudonym of Stratis Eleftheriades), Matisse furthered his exploration of this new technique. He mined his memories of Parisian music halls, the circus, trips to Tahiti, folktales, and mythology, and produced a series of 20 cut-paper maquettes.

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