View of Collioure
Astrid Holm (1876–1937)
1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- height 38 cm, width 46 cm, height 46.4 cm, width 54.3 cm
- Museum
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark: SMK waives its rights in this photograph, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
About this work
The painting View of Collioure by Astrid Holm shows the view from the hills surrounding the town of Collioure in the South of France. The town played an important role as both residence and motif for the French painter Henri Matisse, whose art school in Paris Holm attended around 1910. This might well have been what inspired her to travel to Collioure. On the back of the canvas are the initial stages of another landscape painting, possibly also of the hills around Collioure, composed of areas of colour applied with rhythmical brushstrokes in opposing directions. This sketch can give us an idea of how Holm composed her landscapes and cropped her motif. A smear of mauve paint applied with a broad brushstroke could indicate that she had started to paint over the motif, but changed her mind, turned the canvas over, and started all over again.
