Album Jazz, Planche IV

Henri Matisse

Plate IV from the album Jazz, The Nightmare of the White Elephant

1947

Colored stencil on Arches paper, after a collage and cut-out by Henri Matisse. Tériade publisher

42 x 65 cm

One of the plates from the 100-copy album.

Catalog raisonné : Duthuit books 22

One of the most famous artist's books of the 20th century, Jazz by Henri Matisse is made up of twenty stencils executed from gouaches specially cut by the artist between June 1943 and, for the most part, August 1944. Matisse wrote and calligraphed the text in monumental script in 1946. The work was published by Tériade at the end of 1947.