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4 unusual facts about Fauve


Émilie Charmy

She worked closely with Fauve artists like Henri Matisse, and was active in exhibiting her artworks in Paris, particularly with Berthe Weill.

Fauve

Fauvism, a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century modern art

Francis Focer Brown

Notably, unlike many other impressionists of the era, Brown began to expand the boundaries of impressionism far beyond many of his contemporaries with departures that encompassed both the Fauve and Expressionist movements.

Paule Marrot

In 1973, Marrot exhibited 82 fabrics and tablecloths at the Exposition au Musée d’impression sur Etoffe de Mulhouse (Museum of Printed Textiles at Mulhouse), working with Fauve painter Raoul Dufy.


Elne

"Pomone" by Maillol serves as the WWII war memorial, and the studio of Terrus, where Henri Matisse and André Derain were received, saw the birth of the Fauve movement.

Fauvism

Many of the Fauve characteristics first cohered in Matisse's painting, Luxe, Calme et Volupté ("Luxury, Calm and Pleasure"), which he painted in the summer of 1904, whilst in Saint-Tropez with Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross.


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