The Sorrows of the King

Painting by Henri Matisse

The Sorrows of the King

Artist| Henri Matisse
Year| 1952
Type| Gouache on paper on canvas
Dimensions| 292 cm × 386 cm (115 in × 152 in)
Location| Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

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 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, Finland.[2][3]

## See also

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* List of works by Henri Matisse

## Notes and references

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1. ^ "Henri Matisse" Archived 2008-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, Pompidou Centre. Retrieved 25 December 2007.
2. ^ "Sinfonia Lahden kamarisarja käyntiin sunnuntaina" [Lahti Symphony Chamber Series to start on Sunday] (PDF) (in Finnish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-06-04.
3. ^ "Home". peterseabourne.com.

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Henri Matisse

Works|

| 1890s–1900s|

* Woman Reading (1894)
* Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898)
* Academy Study of a Man (1900-1901)
* A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902)
* Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904)
* The Green Stripe (1905)
* The Open Window (1905)
* Woman with a Hat (1905)
* View of Collioure (1905)
* Landscape at Collioure (1905)
* The Red Carpets (1906)
* Le bonheur de vivre (1906)
* Marguerite Reading (1906)
* The Young Sailor II (1906)
* Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906)
* Madras Rouge (1907)
* Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907)
* The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908)
* Game of Bowls (1908)
* Bathers with a Turtle (1908)
* Portrait of Greta Moll (1908)
* Seated Nude (1909)

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1910s–1920s|

* Dance (1910)
* Music (1910)
* Still Life with Geraniums (1910)
* Interior with Aubergines (1911)
* The Red Studio (1911)
* The Conversation (1908–1912)
* Goldfish (1912)
* The Little Mulatta (1912)
* View over the Bay of Tangier (1912)
* Zorah on the Terrace (1912)
* Window at Tangier (1912)
* Paysage marocain (Acanthes) (1912)
* Seated Riffian (1912)
* Arab Coffeehouse (1912–1913)
* View of Notre-Dame (1914)
* Woman on a High Stool (1914)
* The Yellow Curtain (1915)
* Bathers by a River (1917)
* The Painter and His Model (1917)
* The Music Lesson (1917)
* The Piano Lesson (1918)
* Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923)
* Yellow Odalisque (1926)

1930s–1950s|

* The Dance II (1932)
* Purple Robe and Anemones (1937)
* Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
* La Blouse Roumaine (1940)
* Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944)
* Young Woman Lying on a White Fur (1944)
* Asia (1946)
* Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946)
* The Knife Thrower (1947)
* Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)
* The Plum Blossoms (1948)
* Beasts of the Sea (1950)
* The Sorrows of the King (1952)
* Black Leaf on Green Background (1952)
* La Négresse (1952)
* The Snail (1953)
* The Boat (1953)

Series|

* The Back Series (1909–1930)
* Goldfish paintings and etchings (1912–1929)
* Blue Nudes (1952)

Chapels|

* Chapel of the Rosary

Art books|

* Jazz (1947 book)

People|

* Pierre Matisse (son)
* Paul Matisse (grandson)
* Sophie Matisse (great-granddaughter)
* Lydia Delectorskaya (model)
* Gustave Moreau (teacher)

Museums|

* Matisse Museum (Le Cateau-Cambrésis)
* Musée Matisse (Nice)

Related|

* Fauvism
* An Essay on Matisse (1996 documentary)
* Matisse (crater)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* France
* BnF data

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