Take a behind-the-scenes peek at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s latest exhibition: Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
André Derain, “Mountains at Collioure” (1905, oil on canvas) National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Hay Whitney Collection
Bursts of colors fly off the canvas from artistic visionaries Henri Matisse and André Derain—making both storied artists cemented in history as some of the most prolific creators of all time. Now on display through May 27 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, these two extraordinary storytellers will continue to share their work through the museum’s latest exhibition—Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism. In collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the show takes voyeurs through the legendary summer of 1905, when Matisse and Derain carved a new path within French painting. “The work Matisse and Derain created over the summer they spent experimenting together liberated color from its traditional, representational role,” shared Gary Tinterow, director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. “This innovation freed them, and the artists who followed, to use color as color, radically changing modernist painting.”
André Derain, “Woman with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono” (1905, oil on canvas) private collection, courtesy of Nevill Keating Pictures, London.
Henry Matisse, “Open Window, Collioure” (1905, oil on canvas) National Gallery of Art, collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney
Photography by: IMAGE BY ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS; COURTESY OF MFAH
