1905, Andre Derain, The Lighthouse of Collioure -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Derain tended to paint from an elevated vantage point, here a balcony overlooking Voramar, Collioure's principal cove. The imposing stone lighthouse at the far end of the cove was a monument often painted by both Derain and Matisse. In this image, Derain uses sizzling daubs of yellow, orange, and red, contrasting their hues against the darkened balcony, ultramarine sea, and sequence of windows marking the nave of the adjacent church, Notre Dame des Anges. The compression of space, so common in Derain's painting of the port, heightens the intensity of his palette.
Link to other pictures from the exhibition Vertigo of Color.
1905, Andre Derain, The Lighthouse of Collioure -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Derain tended to paint from an elevated vantage point, here a balcony overlooking Voramar, Collioure's principal cove. The imposing stone lighthouse at the far end of the cove was a monument often painted by both Derain and Matisse. In this image, Derain uses sizzling daubs of yellow, orange, and red, contrasting their hues against the darkened balcony, ultramarine sea, and sequence of windows marking the nave of the adjacent church, Notre Dame des Anges. The compression of space, so common in Derain's painting of the port, heightens the intensity of his palette.
Link to other pictures from the exhibition Vertigo of Color.