Henri Manguin: Dahlias on the Oustalet Terrace, Saint-Tropez, 1923

Henri Charles Manguin (1874-1949) was a French painter associated with Fauvism, a style of painting and an art movement that emerged in France at the beginning of the 20th century.  It was the style of les Fauves (French for the wild beasts), a group of modern artists whose works emphasised painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.

Manguin entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Henri Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre. Manguin had his first exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants and Salon d'Automne. Many of his paintings were of Mediterranean landscapes, and would soon represent the height of his career as a Fauve artist.

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