Matisse’s Cut-Outs:
A Celebration

November 09, 2024 – January 20, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art

Coinciding with the holiday season, The Museum of Modern Art will present Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration, a special installation of Henri Matisse’s cut-outs, on view from November 9, 2024, through January 20, 2025, in the fourth-floor collection galleries. The installation will feature 10 key works, including Matisse’s Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve) cut-out maquette and stained-glass window, the latter on view for the first time since 2015. This presentation celebrates The Swimming Pool (1952), marking the last chance to see this immersive work before it comes off view in early 2025.

Organized by Samantha Friedman, Curator, with Rachel Rosin, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.

All images of works by Henri Matisse must represent the entire work unaltered by cropping, overprinting, superimposing, or bleeding to the edges, and must appear fully captioned and with copyright notice as provided.

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Installation view of Gallery 406B: Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool. Shown: Henri Matisse. The Swimming Pool, Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, late summer 1952. Maquette for ceramic (realized 1999 and 2005). Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, on painted paper. The Museum of Modern Art. Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel Fund. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jonathan Dorado

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Maquette for Christmas Eve (Nuit de Noël). 1952. Gouache on paper, cut-and-pasted on board, 107 x 53 1/2″ (271.8 x 135.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Time Inc. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Christmas Eve (Nuit de Noël). Paris, summer-fall 1952. Stained glass, 11′ 3/4″ x 54 3/4″ x 5/8″ (332.5 x 139 x 1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Time Inc. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Icarus (Icare) from Jazz. 1947. One from a portfolio of twenty pochoirs, composition (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 10 15/16″ (41 x 27.8 cm); sheet: 16 5/8 x 25 11/16″ (42.2 x 65.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Peter Butler

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Forms (Formes) from Jazz. 1947. One from a portfolio of twenty pochoirs, composition (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 22 13/16″ (41 x 58 cm); sheet: 16 9/16 x 25 11/16″ (42.1 x 65.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: John Wronn

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Circus (Le Cirque) from Jazz. 1947. One from a portfolio of twenty pochoirs, composition (irreg.): 14 1/4 x 21 15/16″ (36.2 x 55.7 cm); sheet: 16 5/8 x 25 11/16″ (42.2 x 65.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: John Wronn

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Acrobats. Spring – summer 1952. Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, and charcoal on white paper, 83 7/8 x 82″ (213 x 208.3 cm). Private collection. © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954). Memory of Oceania (Souvenir d’Océanie). Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, summer 1952-early 1953. Gouache on paper, cut and pasted, and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas, 9′ 4″ x 9′ 4 7/8″ (284.4 x 286.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund © 2024 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar

Installation view, Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration, on view in gallery 406 at The Museum of Modern Art from November 9, 2024, through January 20, 2025. Photo by Jonathan Dorado © The Museum of Modern Art, New York