Washington (Artprice.com): Fauvists at the National Gallery of Art.

PR Newswire | December 15, 2004 | Copyright

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fauvism, the National Gallery of Art will be hosting a major exhibition of the works of this movement from December 12 2004 to May 30 2005. It was indeed the year 1905 when the art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term "Fauves" in his description of the highly colourful works of a group of young artists at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. Inspired essentially by Henri Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen, Braque, Marquet and Dufy, the movement lost momentum after 1907.

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