The Knife Thrower

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Le Lanceur De Couteaux
ArtistHenri Matisse
Year1947
TypePaper collage
LocationMenil Collection, Houston

Le Lanceur De Couteaux is a paper cut by Henri Matisse from 1947. It is from Jazz, 1947.

History

Tériade, a noted 20th-century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir (stencil) prints. The Knife Thrower was a popular print from Henri Matisse's Jazz portfolio of pochoir prints.