The Fauves at the Salon d'Automne: Oct 15th, 1905.(MONTHS PAST: THIS MONTH IN HISTORY)

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WRITING OF A sculpture in Renaissance style menacingly hemmed in by paintings by Matisse and others in Room VII at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905, the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who would later coin the term Cubism, called it un Donatello parmi les fauves, 'among the wild animals'. He made the comment originally to Henri Matisse himself and liked it so much that he repeated it in print in the magazine Gil Blas. The wildness lay in the lurid colours and aggressive execution of the paintings. Matisse's portrait of his wife, 'Woman in a Hat', for instance, showed her with a ...

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