Languish in the last of the summer sun with this jubilant landscape by André Derain. Painted in 1905 when the artist was in the South of France with Henri Matisse, it is typical of Derain’s Fauvist style, with its vertical brushstrokes, simplified forms and rich palette of vibrant colours. Like Matisse, Derain played with perspective through flattened forms and separated colour from its representational purpose, using it instead to express emotion and create pictoral structure. In Mountains at Collioure, the trees are painted with long dashes of aquamarine, while the mountains are formed from planes of bright orange and blue. A riot of jewel-toned hues, pattern and texture, it sends your eyes dancing in delight across the canvas.

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