Landscape at Collioure
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Henri Matisse painted Landscape at Collioure in the summer of 1905, during the trip to the Mediterranean fishing village that produced the paintings shown at the Salon d'Automne that fall — the exhibition where a critic called the artists "les fauves," the wild beasts, and gave the movement its name. Dashes of green, blue, pink, orange, and yellow are scattered across bare canvas, describing trees, foliage, and a red rooftop without any attempt at conventional modeling or perspective. Signed in the lower left.