Henri Matisse - LE PORT, COLLIOURE, LES FILETS QUI SÈCHENT

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Henri Matisse
1869 - 1954
LE PORT, COLLIOURE, LES FILETS QUI SÈCHENT
Signed Henri.Matisse (lower right)
Watercolor on paper laid down on paper laid down on card
8 1/4 by 10 3/4 in.
20.7 by 27.3 cm
Executed in Collioure in 1905

Between 1905 and 1914, Matisse spent most summers and one winter in the small fishing village of Collioure on the Mediterranean coast. Matisse said about his time in Collioure: "Working before a soul-stirring landscape, all I thought of was making my colors sing, without paying any heed to rules and regulations" (quoted in Pierre Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, p. 203). It was here that Matisse, along with Derain and Vlaminck, would abandon the Neo-Impressionism he had practiced with Paul Signac and embark on his boldest artistic experiments. He found endless inspiration in the seascape right outside his window. What was called the “port” in Collioure was actually Voramar beach, and Derain and Matisse would enjoy the spectacle of the fishermen hauling boats ashore, chanting in unison to make the work easier.
Le Port, Collioure, Les filets qui sèchent was painted in 1905, the same year Louis Vauxcelles would deride the outrageously colorful canvases of Vlaminck, Matisse and Braque on display at the Salon d'Automne as the rantings of "wild beasts." By this time, Matisse had liberated his colors from the strictures of Divisionism and was flooding his works with bold hues and broad brushstrokes. In this depiction, he combines yellows, blues and reds in swaths of pure color, so as to create an emotional impact rather than just a pictorial one.



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