Harvard Art Museums > M12171: The Knife Thrower Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Knife Thrower (Henri Matisse) , M12171,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/271763. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M12171 People Henri Matisse, French (Cateau-Cambresis, France 1869 - 1954 Nice, France) Title The Knife Thrower Other Titles Series/Book Title: Jazz (Paris, Teriade, 1947) Original Language Title: Le Lanceur de Couteaux Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1947 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/271763 Physical Descriptions Technique Pochoir Dimensions sheet: 42 x 65 cm (16 9/16 x 25 9/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Pierre Berès, Paris, France], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, April 2, 1948. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number Standard Reference Number D. 22 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund Copyright © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1948 Object Number M12171 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 62, fig. 53, ill. (b/w) Exhibition History Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 Related Works M12157.-M12176 Henri Matisse Jazz (Paris, Teriade, 1947) Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
