Pont de Charing Cross - André Derain (1906)

At the 1905 Salon d’automne, Derain shared the same gallery as Matisse, Vlaminck and Van Dongen. A critic, noticing a sculpture by Albert Marque in the middle of these vividly coloured paintings, remarked : “Mais c’est Donatello parmi les fauves!” (“Look, it’s Donatello among wild beasts!”). The phrase caught on...