Matisse spent the summer of 1905 in a French fishing village at the foot of the eastern Pyrenees (Collioure).
There he was introduced to Gauguin's friend Daniel de Monfreid. Gauguin had died in 1903 and his Tahitian
canvases, still unknown, were stored in Monfreid's house. Matisse was able to spend much time viewing
them. That summer, working closely with Andre Derain, he "broke the link between the painter's colors and
nature..."
Aesthetic Norms of the Twentieth Century in Words and Picturesfrom a search for Jan Toorop
