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| | Matisse, Henri: The Girl with Green Eyes |
 | | "IN 1904, THE YEAR FOLLOWING the completion of The Slave, Henri Matisse, spurred on by his close friends Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross, began experimenting with the Pointillist technique of the Neo-Impressionists. |
 | | In the fall, two of the canvases he had executed there were hung at the Salon d'Automne together with work by Andre Derain (who had spent the summer with the Matisses), Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Maurice Vlaminck, and others. |
 | | Violently colored with juxtaposed vermilions, persimmons, and ultramarines, freely and informally composed, intoxicating in feeling and seemingly lit from within, these works electrified public and critics alike, one of whom dubbed the artists as a group les fauves, the wild beasts. |
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