Matisse, Henri, Album Jazz, Plate XX, 1947
Sheet XX from the album Jazz, Le Tobogan
1947
Color stencil on Arches paper, based on a collage and cut-out by Henri Matisse. Tériade éditeur.
42 x 65 cm
One of the plates from the 100-copy album.
Catalog raisonné : Duthuit livres 22
Le Toboggan de Jazz was originally composed by Matisse in 1937-1938 as part of his studies for the curtain of Léonide Massine’s ballet L’Étrange Farandole. He took it up again and reworked it in June 1943 for the album Jazz. The figure comes directly from Matisse’s work for La Danse at the Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pennsylvania).
