The Clown, from Jazz
Henri Matisse
1947
- Medium
- Color pochoir with gouache and photolithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet, folded: 42.3 × 32.8 cm (16 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 42.3 × 65.4 cm (16 11/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printTextprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The frontispiece shows the first image of the book—the Clown. The pochoir technique for creating the color was a hand process that involved applying gouache within a cut stencil using a wide, flat brush. If you look closely, you can sometimes see the brush strokes.
