''The Sorrows of the King'' is a collage using cut out paper shapes 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 draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prim ...

from 1952. It was made from paper he had coloured with

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paint and is mounted on canvas. Its area is 292 x 386 cm. It was his final self-portrait."Mama Mia JAJAJAJA"
,

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. Retrieved 25 December 2007. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. By 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. ''The Sorrows of the King'' is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the ''cutouts''. The British composer

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b.1960 wrote a septet ''The Sadness of the King'' (2007) inspired by this late paper cut, performed in

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and by members of the

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Notes and references

1952 paintings Paintings by Henri Matisse Paintings in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne {{20C-painting-stub