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...artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, to Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque, to Kees van Dongen and Henri Manguin...
...bright, dissonant color, the crude urgency of surface, the distorted drawing and the love of brisk, apparently raw sensation. But there was no unifying doctrine, as with surrealism, nor even a strong common practice, such as the cubists found. "One can talk about the impressionist school," the Dutchman Van Dongen later remarked, "because they held certain principles. For us there was nothing like that; we merely thought their colors were a bit dull...
...Parasols. This sim ple optimism, underlying the aggressive color, is the main difference between Fauvism and expressionism. Every where one turns in this show, pleasure is celebrated: the tricolores and red, white and blue parasols in Raoul Dufy's street scenes, the rosy theatrical vigor of Van Dongen's scene of a couple out side a brothel. The Hussar (Liverpool Night House), 1906, the slapdash but infectious ebullience of Vlaminck's still lifes. The best sight of all, though, is Matisse inventing the Mediterranean; it is amazing to find how deeply one's images of that...
...Picasso for $430,000, believed to be a record for the Rose Period. A fauve-period Dufy, Les Trois Ombrellas, was bought by Houston's John Beck for $140,000, double the auction high set for a Dufy only three years ago. But dreary works by Vlaminck, Van Dongen and lesser artists were also bid skyhigh. Still, some paintings failed to meet their reserve price (at which the owner prefers to keep possession rather than sell). Claude Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped...
Died. Kees van Dongen, 91, Dutch-born painter, one of the earliest and wildest of Paris' turn-of-the-century Fauves (wild beasts); of pneumonia; in Monte Carlo. Along with his friends Georges Braque and Henri Matisse, Van Dongen rebelled against 19th century impressionism, filling his canvases with slashing brush strokes and raucous colors that enraged critics but fascinated gallery goers; and while some of the other Fauves went on to cubism, Van Dongen settled for becoming court painter ("I paint the women slimmer and their jewels fatter") for the international set, turning out glittering portraits of such luminaries...