A metal sign marks a view painted by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
In the early years of the twentieth century Charles Rennie Mackintosh was lauded as a modernist architect across Europe but was becoming unpopular in his home country. In 1914 he moved to East Anglia for a period of recuperation and to paint, then to London. In 1922 he gave up architecture permanently and he and his wife moved to the Roussillon area of south-west France. There are now a number of signs located at points that he painted. This sign shows Mackintosh's painting 'Collioure' done in 1924 and is sited opposite Vauban's Fort Miradou shown in the picture. The original painting was shown at the 1926 Sixth International Watercolour Exhibition in Chicago and is one of Mackintosh's few French watercolours exhibited during his lifetime.
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Location: Collioure, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc, France
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