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The Open Window also known as Open Window Collioure is a painting by Henri Matisse. The work an oil on canvas was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in Paris the same year. It was bequeathed in 1998 by the estate of Mrs. John Hay Whitney to the National Gallery of Art Washington DC..It is an example of the Fauvist style of painting that Matisse became famous for and for which he was a leader roughly between the years 1900–1909.
