#othon friesz

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Othon Friesz - Les Arbres, Côte de Grâce, Honfleur (1937)

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Othon Friesz

The Pont de Grenelle, Paris

1901

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Othon Friesz, Telhados e Catedral de Rouen (1908)

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The Harbor at Honfleur, Othon Friesz, 1907

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Othon Friesz "Othon Friesz was born in Le Havre, the son of a long line of shipbuilders and sea captains. He went to school in his native city. It was while he was at the Lycée that he met his lifelong friend Raoul Dufy. He and Dufy studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts in 1895-96 and then went to Paris together for further study. In Paris, Friesz met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault. Like them, he rebelled against the academic teaching of Bonnat and became a member of the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907."

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The Fauvist Revolution: How Colour Became King

The Fauvist Revolution: How Colour Became King

The text below is the excerpt from the book The Fauves (ISBN: 9781783103935), written by Nathalia Brodskaya, published by Parkstone International. Decade follows decade in art, like waves breaking on a beach, each bringing its own “deposits” which, in turn, cover those that came before, dimming what had once seemed strikingly brilliant. But time does not work on everything with equal force. The…

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Othon Friesz, Arbres à Honfleur, hiver 1906-1907, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou.