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The journalist Louis Vauxcelles, a somewhat skittish supporter of avant-garde painting, is supposed to have given the movement its name in his review of the 1905 Salon d'Automne, where he referred to these artists as fauves, or 'wild beasts.' [
Taming the Beasts Flam, Jack 1991
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