Fauvism Paintings & Artworks

Featured Fauvist Fine Artists

Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, in the north of France. He died in 1954 at the age of 84 in Nice, France. Giving up a legal career and taking up painting while recovering from an illness, Matisse studied art at the Academie Julian starting in 1891, where William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau were among his teachers. Influenced initially by the Post-Impressionists, Matisse first adopted the Pointilist techniques of Paul Signac. After 1905, he spent increasing time in the south of France, associating with a group of painters who ended up calling themselves the Fauves. [More...]

Andre Derain was born in 1860 in Chatou, France, and died in 1954 at the age of 74. He met Henri Matisse while studying art at the Academie Camillo in Paris and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck. [More...]

Raoul Dufy was born in 1877 in Le Havre, in Normandy, France. He died at the age of 75 in 1973 in the south of France. He left school at 14, but started taking evening art classes at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, and later won a scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale de Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he met Georges Braque who was a fellow student. Dufy was initially influenced by Impressionism and Fauvism, but later developed his own unique style. [More...]