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The Sorrows of the King

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Year
  
1952

Dimensions
  
2.92 m x 3.86 m

Period
  
Abstract expressionism

Media
  
Paper, Gouache

Artist
  
Henri Matisse

Location
  
Centre Georges Pompidou

Created
  
1952

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Type
  
Gouache on paper on canvas

Similar
  
Henri Matisse artwork, Gouache

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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 size is 292 x 386 cm. It is his final self-portrait. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually 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.

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