A small flowerpot stands on the sill, while behind it the sea glows in pink, turquoise and pale blue. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a French painter, printmaker and draughtsman. In Open Window, Collioure, this everyday object was enough to make the immediacy of a summer's day palpable. For him, the window did not separate indoors from outdoors, but allowed the colors to flow into one another. Yet his path to this point began with files, office work and a legal career. When the consequences of an appendectomy confined him to bed for a long time in 1890, he began to paint. For a year, the familiar world had shrunk to a sickroom, but another opened up on paper. Eventually, he abandoned the law. Perhaps this experience helps explain the determination with which he later approached windows, gardens and interiors: for him, color was not an embellishment added later, but a way of making life expansive again. Even an early Parisian garden painting, The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, ca. 1902, as well as Bois de Boulogne and Goldfish, retain in their titles the specific places or things that Matisse transformed into vivid, colorful presences.
In the summer of 1905, Matisse worked alongside André Derain in Collioure. It was there that he created Open Window, Collioure, whose pink shutters refuse to remain still and instead seem like a warm echo of the harbor. When the paintings were shown that autumn at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, the public reacted with outrage, and the critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the name Medieval Art, or wild beasts, for the group. The term was intended as a barb, yet it soon came to describe the freedom with which color was released from the obligation merely to imitate nature. In The Joy of Life, nude bodies recline in a landscape that seems less observed than sustained by yellow, green and blue. Matisse allowed areas of color to breathe, simplified lines and, in doing so, preserved a sensual warmth that gave even large formats an air of effortlessness. His friendship with Picasso was shaped by rivalry, respect and creative vigilance. Later, Nice became the center of his life, initially in a hotel room by the sea. Interior in Nice shows a seated figure in an open doorway, yet the strong turquoise tones and patterned room keep the calm from feeling cool. After major intestinal surgery in 1941, Matisse had to adapt his working methods to his physical limitations. Painted and cut papers became large cut-and-paste compositions in which blue, red, yellow and green met with even greater immediacy. Blue Nude III belongs to that late pictorial world, in which a body became present through a few powerful forms. What might have seemed like a limitation was transformed by Matisse into a lighthearted final chapter.
Whenever a reproduction of one of his paintings is prepared at Meisterdrucke, the sensitivity of the balance between luminosity and calm becomes apparent time and again. Every image file is therefore inspected by experts before the fine art print is slowly produced using lightfast pigment inks. A slightly glossy canvas is often recommended for the luminous areas of color, while a matte canvas with a fine texture has a more understated effect; each customer can select the medium, size and frame. In this way, Open Window, Collioure remains what it promised at first glance: a door flung wide open into Matisse's color.
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.jpg "Open Window, Collioure by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629502).jpg "The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Blue Nude III by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Cowslips on Blue and Pink Cloth by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Bois de Boulogne by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Interior in Nice by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Goldfish by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1627876).jpg "Woman beside the Water (The Japanese Woman) by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Collection of Eight Color Lithographs by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Woman with Hat by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Open Window by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Tree of Life Stained Glass behind the Altar in the Chapel of the Rosary, Vence by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Interior in Nice by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Dream by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1598134).jpg "Blue Still Life by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1547024).jpg "Pink Nude or Young Girl with a Vase of Flowers, c.1920 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Flowers by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Three Sisters and \"The Rose Marble Table\" by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1628988).jpg "Interior with Eggplants 1911 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Window by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1635094).jpg "White and Pink Head, Autumn 1914 by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1586060).jpg "The Red Studio by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Crockery on the Table by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Interior, The Goldfish Bowl by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Little Mulatta by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1586782).jpg "Woman Reading at a Table by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Goldfish by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629748).jpg "Open Window at Collioure by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Several Sonnets: The Tomb of Edgar Poe, Plate 26 from Poesies de Mallarmé by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Pasiphaé by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Red Interior, Still-Life on Blue Table by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Blue Nude IV by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Reader, Marguerite Matisse by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1628841).jpg "Still Life with Oranges 1912 by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629113).jpg "Portrait of Greta Prozor by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Mill, Corsica by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Gray Nude with Bracelet by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Landscape with Cypresses and Olive Trees near Nice, c. 1918 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Sunset in Corsica by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Harmony in Yellow by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Dance by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Interior with Violin by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Anemones with a Black Mirror by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Odalisque, Blue Harmony by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Nadia with Smooth Hair by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Regattas at Nice by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629108).jpg "Blue Nude III by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1550833).jpg "Geranium in a Pot by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Standing Female Nude Seen from the Back by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1549302).jpg "The Bees by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Reader by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Portrait by Albert Marquet by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Anemones in an Earthenware Vase by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Lagoon II / Jazz by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Study for a Gold and Black Nude by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Oriental Woman, Cross Tattoo on the Chest by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Crouching Nude, Profile with Black Hair by Henri Matisse")
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_conceived_1911_this_version_cast_c1930_(bronze_with_b_-_(MeisterDrucke-1549220).jpg "The Dance - Dance Movement, conceived 1911, this version cast c. 1930 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Flayed Man, after Puget, conceived 1903, this version cast 1958 by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1548023).jpg "Head with Blackened Eyes (Lorette, c.1917) by Henri Matisse")
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_c1905-06_(bronze_with_brown_patina)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1551555).jpg "Bust of Fillette (Marguerite), c.1905-06 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Little Girl, Arm over Her Head by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629747).jpg "Tulips and oysters on a black background 1943 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Album Pages, Rondels, Plate 23 from Poems of Mallarmé by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629109).jpg "Polynesia, the Sky by Henri Matisse")
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_Femme_mauresque_(Le_Genou_leve)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1595305).jpg "Moorish Woman (The Raised Knee) by Henri Matisse")
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_(black_Cont_crayon_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1550499).jpg "Study - Leda and the Swan by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Draped Nude by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1550896).jpg "Notre-Dame (c.1900) by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Still Life in Backlight by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Emma L., \"Rivière\" by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1586847).jpg "Moroccan Landscape (The Acanthus) by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Forest of Fontainebleau by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Still Life: Buffet and Table by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Reader on a Black Background by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Interior, July 14th, Etretat by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Luxury, Silence and Lust by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Chapel of the Rosary, Known as the Matisse Chapel by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Girl in yellow and blue with guitar by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629640).jpg "Pink Nude by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1628848).jpg "The Snack Gulf of Saint Tropez 1904 by Henri Matisse")
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_(bw_phot_-_(MeisterDrucke-1550252).jpg "Front cover illustration of the review")
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.jpg "Portrait with Curly Hair, Marine Blue Sweater by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629114).jpg "Yellow and Blue Interior by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Draped Figure Lying on a Black Checkered Sofa by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Birds by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1653526).jpg "The Sheaf (La Gerbe) by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1547021).jpg "Reclining Female Nude by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Rocks and the Sea by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1547033).jpg "Vase, Bottle and Fruit, c.1906 by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Camouflaged Boat at the Port of Marseille by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1550992).jpg "Portrait of Marguerite (c. 1906-1907) by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Chrysanthemums in a China Vase by Henri Matisse")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629881).jpg "Women on the Sofa or The Divan by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Flowers by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "The Music by Henri Matisse")
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.jpg "Small Interior in Blue by Henri Matisse")
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