The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown, from Jazz
Henri Matisse
1947
- Medium
- Color pochoir with gouache on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet, folded: 42.3 × 32.7 cm (16 11/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 42.3 × 65.2 cm (16 11/16 × 25 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printTextprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Although you do not clearly see the figures in The Horse Rider and Clown, you get a glimpse of the rider’s skirt on the horse and the costume of the clown in the bottom left. The yellow tongue-like line in the middle of the image represents the ringmaster’s whip.
