Beasts of the Sea (French: Les bêtes de la mer) is a paper collage on canvas by Henri Matisse from 1950. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.[1] During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. Beasts of the Sea, is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the cutouts.[2]

Beasts of the Sea
ArtistHenri Matisse
Year1950
TypePaper collage on canvas
Dimensions295.5 cm × 154 cm (11638 in × 6058 in)
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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  1. ^ NGO, retrieved December 25, 2007 Archived November 10, 2004, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Henri Matisse" Archived 2008-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, Pompidou Centre. Retrieved 25 December 2007.