Newsletter: Fall 2006

The Matisse drawing, View of Collioure, dates from 1905, the year that Matisse and his wife spent in the port town of Collioure on the French Cote d'Azure. That summer, in a series of vibrant paintings and watercolors , Matisse experimented with a modified pointillist technique, where he combined short, bold brushstrokes with broad areas of pure color in a revolutionary manner that was later to be referred to as Fauvism. View of Collioure was very likely included in the first Matisse exhibition in the United States, organized by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907.