Distance: 0, small home yoga, much reading. Thankful for long Thanksgiving holiday of rain, quiet, books in company of Callie
Open Window at Collioure, 1905, 21 3/4" x 18 1/8", oil on canvas
French Window at Collioure, 1914, 46" x 35", oil on canvas
This window was in Matisse's room at Collioure, a French fishing port he returned to again and again over the decades. The light filled painting on top was done shortly after he first arrived at Collioure during a summer he and Derain spent months together, painting side-by-side. It was entered in the Paris Salon that year where its vibrant, childlike forms and unnatural colors were received with outrage.
Matisse painted the lower painting while back in Collioure and probably trying to assimilate his dark and complex emotions and forebodings about World War I. (The poet Louis Aragon called French Window 'the most mysterious picture Matisse ever painted.'). The picture was not displayed publicly during Matisse's life time, and was finally shown in 1966, more than fifty years after it was painted.
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