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The Blue Nudes is a series of collages, and related color lithographs, by Henri Matisse, made from paper cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions.Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand; these Matisse viewed as independent artworks in their own right.
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs was exhibited at London's Tate Modern, from April to September 2014. [86] The show was the largest and most extensive of the cut-outs ever mounted, including approximately 100 paper maquettes—borrowed from international public and private collections—as well as a selection of related drawings, prints, illustrated ...
Starting in the 1930s, Matisse began to experiment with creating art by cutting paper into shapes. By 1950, he had primarily shifted to this mode of art making, perhaps because his health and disabilities made painting on a large scale difficult. [1] These "cut-outs" were often mural-sized and made from pieces of paper painted with gouache. [2]
Gouache-painted paper cut-outs stuck to paper mounted on canvas 116.2 × 88.9 cm Paris: Centre Pompidou ... Henri Matisse: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art.
The Boat (French: Le Bateau) is a paper-cut from 1953 by Henri Matisse. The picture is composed from pieces of paper cut out of sheets painted with gouache, and was created during the last years of Matisse's life.
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. [1] During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. By 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper ...