Open Window, Collioure ☱ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver in front of a golden

in front of a golden background

and used both Loving Woman and Madonna as titles

during WWII it was rolled up and hidden

During his stay

Water Lilies (1899

Open Window, Collioure ☱ Matisse ☴ Canvas Add a Float Frame:Silver in front of a goldenOpen Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse is a prime example of Fauvism, a style of art that he was instrumental in developing, noted for bold and bright colors used to express emotion over realism. Matisse loved painting open windows, here depicting the view from his apartment in Collioure, on the southern coast of France. It depicts a series of frames within frames: the wall contains the windowed doors, the doors frame the plants on the