Word: fauvism
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...became clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came in the form of a letter sent by Fabbri in 1899 praising "the aristocratic and austere" beauty of Cézanne's painting, was treated...