What Lies Behind Matisse’s Window?

How to decipher a work of modern art in less than five minutes

Johanna Da Costa
The Collector
Published in
4 min readJun 25, 2023

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Porte-fenêtre à Collioure, Henri Matisse, 1914, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

For this new brève d’art, I’ve decided to tell you about Henri Matisse, and a rather surprising work when you consider that Matisse’s work is all about light and colour. If you’re in the habit of reading me regularly, you’ll no doubt have realised that I have an inordinate passion for colour in…

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Johanna Da Costa
The Collector

a French tour guide, a feminist, a cheese lover. I write about art, books, feminism, and others