Fauvism Facts for Kids

Danceuse by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau, 1910

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) was the name of a modern art movement in the early 20th century, led by the painters Henri Matisse and André Derain. The Fauves were a group of French painters who were influenced by the bright colours used by the Post-Impressionists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

The bright colourful style of painting that they used began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, but the group was only together for three years, 1905–1907. In that time they had three exhibitions together. Their influence has continued until the present day, and was adopted or influenced many artists who are not usually thought of as fauvists. Aristarkh Lentulov is one good example.

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Henri Matisse. Woman with a Hat, 1905. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Press clipping, Les Fauves: Exhibition at the Salon d'Automne, in L'Illustration, 4 November 1905
André Derain, 1906, Charing Cross Bridge, London, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Rousseau, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, 1905, oil on canvas, 200 cm × 301 cm, Beyeler Foundation, Basel
Robert Delaunay, 1906, L'homme à la tulipe (Portrait de Jean Metzinger), oil on canvas, 72.4 x 48.5 cm. Exhibited at the 1906 Salon d'Autome (Paris) along with a portrait of Delaunay by Jean Metzinger
Henri Matisse, Notre-Dame at the end of the Afternoon, 1902, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
André Derain, Self-portrait in the Studio, 1903, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Robert Antoine Pinchon, 1904, Triel sur Seine, le pont du chemin de fer, 46 x 55 cm
Henri Matisse, Les toits de Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
André Derain, 1905, Le séchage des voiles (The Drying Sails), 1905, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Maurice de Vlaminck, 1905–06, Barges on the Seine (Bateaux sur la Seine), oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Georges Braque, 1906, L'Olivier près de l'Estaque (The Olive tree near l'Estaque). At least four versions of this scene were painted by Braque, one of which was stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris during the month of May 2010.
André Derain, La jetée à L'Estaque, 1906, oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm
Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe), 1906, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Maurice de Vlaminck, The River Seine at Chatou, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Henri Matisse, 1906, Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jean Metzinger, 1907, Paysage coloré aux oiseaux aquatiques, oil on canvas, 74 x 99 cm, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Othon Friesz, 1907, Paysage à La Ciotat, oil on canvas, 59.9 x 72.9 cm

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