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The Summer Colour Went Wild

Collioure, 1905. Matisse and Derain spend a summer by the sea and come back with colour nobody had seen in a gallery.

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In the summer of 1905 Henri Matisse worked in Collioure, a fishing village near the Spanish border, with the younger painter André Derain.

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Derain and Matisse brought their Collioure pictures to the Salon d'Automne that autumn. The next year Derain went back to the Mediterranean and showed a set painted on the coast near Marseille.

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The artists knew each other

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At the 1905 Salon d'Automne the critic Louis Vauxcelles walked into a room of Matisse, Derain and their friends and called them 'fauves': wild beasts. The name stuck.

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The artists knew each other

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Lyman Saÿen designed X-ray tubes in Philadelphia before he took up painting. In 1906 he moved to Paris and soon counted Matisse and Picasso among his friends.

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A hidden link

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