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Fauvism
"Salon d’automne de 1905", couverture du catalogue d’exposition Photo: Ville de Nice, Musée Matisse
Spends the summer in Collioure with André Derain. Paints many landscapes using pure colours. Exhibits in the so-called “Fauves” (wild beasts) room of the Salon d’Automne. Leo and Gertrude Stein purchase La Femme au Chapeau at the Salon.
"Statuette Vili", Congo, ancienne collection Henri Matisse, Collection particulière Photo: Archives Henri Matisse / D. R.
"Henri Matisse, sa femme Amélie et leur fille Marguerite", Collioure, 1907 Photo: Archives Henri Matisse / D. R
Paints Le Bonheur de Vivre (also called The Joy of Life).
Solo exhibition at the Druet gallery in Paris. Travels to Biskra in Algeria.
Second summer in Collioure.
Pays frequent visits to the sculptor Aristide Maillol in Banyuls.
Buys his first African sculpture.
Paints Nu Bleu, souvenir de Biskra described by the critic Louis Vauxcelles as an “African Venus”. The Bernheim-Jeune gallery becomes his dealer. Travels to Italy during the summer (Florence, Siena, Padua, Venice). With his family moves from 19, quai Saint-Michel to 33, boulevard des Invalides in a former convent.