1905, Andre Derain, Le Faubourg de Collioure -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: At Collioure during the summer of 1905, both Matisse, the elder, and Derain, ten years younger, "slaved away with all their hearts", according to the latter. The two friends' stay proved to be decisive in terms of their attempts to translate into pure colour the light of the south of France. This landscape, organised around the diagonal formed by the boats pulled up on the shore, attest to it. The artist's eye, looking down from a terrace, homes in on a series of orangish masts streaking the blue of the sea. In the foreground devoid of shadow, the silhouettes of fishermen are busy tidying nets away.
1905, Andre Derain, Le Faubourg de Collioure -- Pompidou Center (Paris)
From the museum label: At Collioure during the summer of 1905, both Matisse, the elder, and Derain, ten years younger, "slaved away with all their hearts", according to the latter. The two friends' stay proved to be decisive in terms of their attempts to translate into pure colour the light of the south of France. This landscape, organised around the diagonal formed by the boats pulled up on the shore, attest to it. The artist's eye, looking down from a terrace, homes in on a series of orangish masts streaking the blue of the sea. In the foreground devoid of shadow, the silhouettes of fishermen are busy tidying nets away.