Collioure, vue d'une fenêtre, voiliers

...One of his [Matisse's] important concerns at Collioure was the representation in single paintings of two different worlds: a flattened and restful interior one through which the external world of nature is viewed. The window motif itself becomes an internal picture frame, enclosing a picture within a picture, and nature itself is presented through the mediation of an enclosed decorative space. (J. Elderfield, The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and its Affinities, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, 1976, p. 56)

Wanda de Guébriant has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing, which is recorded as no. Y87 in the Henri Matisse archives.