Lot n° 127
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VAUXCELLES, Louis, pseudonym of Louis Mayer (1870-1943), art - Lot 127
VAUXCELLES, Louis, pseudonym of Louis Mayer (1870-1943), art critic. Vauxcelles is not just anyone. He is the inventor of the term "fauves" to designate the paintings of Derain, Dufy, Matisse and Vlaminck. At the Salon d'Automne of 1905, in front of a classical sculpture placed in the middle of the pure-coloured canvases of these artists, he used the formula that made history: "Donatello among the Fauvists". But that is not all. In 1908, he coined the word "cube": Braque "despises form, reducing everything, sites and figures and houses, to geometric patterns, to cubes". A page in-12 on mourning paper, an undated letter addressed to Jean-Bernard Passerieu, known as JEAN-BERNARD, lawyer and publicist (1858-1936). Founded the magazine L'Union littéraire at the age of eighteen; literary critic for L'Événement under the pseudonym "Bourgeois de Paris"; president of the Syndicat des Journaux de Langue française published abroad, etc. "Dear Jean-Bernard / C'est vous qui avez raison. I'm cranky, stupid, embittered, overworked. Forgive me ...".
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