The Knife Thrower

The Knife Thrower is a paper cut by Henri Matisse from 1947. It is from Jazz, 1947. It is held in the Menil Collection, in Houston.

History

, a noted 20th-century art publisher, arranged to have Matisse's cutouts rendered as pochoir prints. The Knife Thrower was a popular print from Henri Matisse's Jazz portfolio of pochoir prints.