The Swimmer in the Tank, from Jazz
Henri Matisse
1947
- Medium
- Color pochoir with gouache on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet, folded: 42 × 32.8 cm (16 9/16 × 12 15/16 in.); Sheet, unfolded: 42 × 65.3 cm (16 9/16 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printTextprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
In The Swimmer in the Tank, as in some other plates including The Cowboy (next case), Matisse works with the book form through a balance of the two sheets that make up the spread. Here, a spectator watches a female swimmer in a tank.
