Le Faubourg de Collioure is an oil on canvas painting by French artist André Derain, from 1905. It is one of the first paintings in the fauvist style. It is held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris.Centre Pompidou
History and description The painting was made during a trip that Derain and his older friend, the painter Henri Matisse, took to Collioure, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in 1905. Both painters would the founders and the first leaders of fauvism, and the paintings they made while there, often with the same motifs, would be some of the first in the new artistic style. This in fact was one of the works exhibited at the , at the Grand Palais, in Paris.Jean-Louis Ferrier, Yann Le Pichon, L'Aventure de l'art au xxe siècle, Paris, Chêne-Hachette, 1988, p. 62 (French)
In this case, Derain depicts a row of coloured boats in a beach in Collioure, with some fishermen also visible. His style and colours are clearly inspired by Paul Gauguin.Guitemie Maldonado, "Le Faubourg de Collioure d'André Derain: étude d 'une œuvre", in Connaissance des arts, n° 606, June 2003, pp. 90-93 (French)
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