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Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism – Met Museum

How the surprising, saturated colors in the turn-of-the-century paintings Matisse and others created in the South of France changed the face of Western art.

James Panero on “Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

The Met receives extraordinary gift of Georg Baselitz paintings Georg Baselitz, Working Man from Dresden - Portrait of M.G.B, 1969. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Baselitz Family, 2020, © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann. NEW YORK, NY .- German artist Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six landmark paintings by the artist to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2020. The portraits, made in 1969, are among the first that Basel...