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The Fauve School
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2013. Accession Number 2013.54.132
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Inscribed on the reverse.
Framed painting above blackboard: Henri Matisse, Madame Matisse, "The Green Line," 1905.
Drawing of woman on blackboard: Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907.
Seated boy by door: Henri Matisse, The Young Sailor II, 1906.
Girl in red dress reading: Henri Matisse, The Reader (Marguerite Matisse), 1906.
Fauvism: a short-lived movement in painting centered on a group of French artists exhibiting together from about 1905 to 1907, and typified by the work of its originator, Henri Matisse. The artists shared their first exhibition at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. Described as "fauves" (wild beasts), their name was given to them by the critic Louis Vauxcelles who pointed to a Renaissance-like sculpture in the same gallery and exclaimed, "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts!).
When I put a green it is not grass, when I put a blue, it is not the sky (Henri Matisse).
Fauve painting is not everything, but it is the foundation of everything (Henri Matisse).
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