Modernism: Matisse, Picasso & 20th Century Painting

At the dawn of the 20th century, the Impressionists were considered passé. In a critic at an exhibition in Paris described being amongst the pictures was as being amongst wild animals ("bêtes fauves" in French). The term Fauvism was born. In the Hermitage are works by André Derian, Kees van Dongen, and Henri Matisse.