''Le Lanceur De Couteaux'' is a paper cut by
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
from 1947. It is from ''
Jazz
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, 1947.''
History
Tériade Tériade is the pen name of Stratis (or Efstratios) Eleftheriades ( el, Στρατής Ελευθεριάδης; 2 May 1897 – 23 October 1983), a native of Mytilene who went to Paris in 1915 at the age of eighteen to study law, but who instead bec ...
, a noted
20th-century art
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Overview
Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century ...
publisher
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, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir (
stencil) prints. ''The Knife Thrower'' was a popular print from
Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a drawing, draughtsman, printmaking, printmaker, and sculptur ...
's ''
Jazz
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'' portfolio of
pochoir
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prints.
Paintings by Henri Matisse
1947 paintings
Paintings in Houston
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