The Sorrows of the King is a collage using cut out paper shapes by Henri Matisse from 1952.

It was made from paper he had coloured with gouache paint and is mounted on canvas.

By 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts.

The Sorrows of the King is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the cutouts.

The British composer Peter Seabourne b.1960 wrote a septet The Sadness of the King (2007) inspired by this late paper cut, performed in Chicago and by members of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Lahti, Finland.