MATISSE, DERAIN, AND THEIR FRIENDS - THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE 1904-1908, E, Kunstmuseum Basel, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2023 *ADS*

 

Matisse, Derain, and their Friends

The Parisian Avant-Garde 1904–1908

 

At the beginning of the 20thcentury, a group of artists around Henri Matisse and André Derain were carrying out revolutionary colour experiments. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles gave them their name in 1905: the "Fauves". Translated into English, this means something like "beasts" or "wild animals". This catalogue is being published for the first survey exhibition on the Fauves staged in Switzerland for decades. It presents the expressive painting style and unusual colour combinations employed by Matisse, Derain and their companions in the years 1904 to 1908, situating them in the aesthetic and socio-political debates of that time. The male connotation of the term Fauves already suggests the exclusion of women artists on a conceptual level. The exhibition and catalogue challenge this traditional view and draw attention to female protagonists on the Paris art scene. Richly illustrated and supplemented by new art-historical research contributions, the publication offers an insight into the diversity of the colourful painting by the "beasts".

 

• Fauvism – the first avantgarde movement of the 20th century


• Brilliant colour experiments in a break with academic conventions


• Catalogue of the exhibtion Matisse, Derain, and their Friends - The Parisian Avant-Garde 1904-1908 at Kunstmuseum Basel | Neubau from 02.09.2023–21.01.2024

 

Edited by: Arthur Fink, Assistant Curator Kunstmuseum Basel; Claudine Grammont, Director Musée Matisse, Nice; Josef Helfenstein, Director Kunstmuseum Basel

With contributions by: Elena Degen, Arthur Fink, Claudine Grammont, Josef Helfenstein, Gabrielle Houbre, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Peter Kropmanns, Maureen Murphy and Pascal Rousseau

 

English

2023. 352 pages, 200 color illustrations

Hardback

29 x 22 cm

ISBN 978-3-422-80119-6

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