Wed April 30 - Sun July 6, 2025

Matisse’s Jazz Unbound

at de Young Museum (see times)

In the final decades of a prolific career, modern artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) took up book illustration. This exhibition celebrates our 2024 acquisition of Jazz, Matisse's 1947 artist book on the circus and theater. Jazz includes 20 color stencil prints (pochoirs) of popular subjects on these themes, from horses to ringmasters. The prints were created using the artist's lively paper cutouts, what Matisse called "drawing with scissors." Published by the innovative Greek publisher Tériade (Stratis Eleftheriadis), it is considered the pinnacle of Matisse's graphic art. This presentation offers the rare chance to see the unbound works from Jazz in conversation with other Matisse artist books and works on paper from our collection.

Image Credit: Henri Matisse (1869-1954), I - The Clown (Le clown) from Jazz, 1947. 16 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (42.2 x 65.1 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Gift of Margaret and William R. Hearst III, 2024.34.1 © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Randy Dodson

In the final decades of a prolific career, modern artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) took up book illustration. This exhibition celebrates our 2024 acquisition of Jazz, Matisse's 1947 artist book on the circus and theater. Jazz includes 20 color stencil prints (pochoirs) of popular subjects on these themes, from horses to ringmasters. The prints were created using the artist's lively paper cutouts, what Matisse called "drawing with scissors." Published by the innovative Greek publisher Tériade (Stratis Eleftheriadis), it is considered the pinnacle of Matisse's graphic art. This presentation offers the rare chance to see the unbound works from Jazz in conversation with other Matisse artist books and works on paper from our collection.

Image Credit: Henri Matisse (1869-1954), I - The Clown (Le clown) from Jazz, 1947. 16 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (42.2 x 65.1 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Gift of Margaret and William R. Hearst III, 2024.34.1 © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Randy Dodson

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Wed Apr 30 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Thu May 1 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Fri May 2 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sat May 3 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sun May 4 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Tue May 6 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Wed May 7 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Thu May 8 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Fri May 9 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sat May 10 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sun May 11 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Tue May 13 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Wed May 14 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Thu May 15 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Fri May 16 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sat May 17 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sun May 18 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Tue May 20 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Wed May 21 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Thu May 22 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Fri May 23 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
Sat May 24 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
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Wed May 28 (9:30am - 5:15pm)
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