Henri Matisse

In 1905 Matisse and his associates, notably André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck,
caused a sensation at the Salon d'Automne with their brilliantly coloured,
raw-factured canvases which earned them the label 'Fauves' (wild beasts).
Matisse, however, also attracted his first patrons, the Stein family,
and soon after Claribel and Etta Cone of Baltimore.
In 1908 Matisse opened his own painting school in Paris and exhibited abroad,
at New Gallery in London, at '291' in New York, at the Golden Fleece Salon in Moscow,
and at the Paul Cassirer Gallery in Berlin.
In 1909 he signed his first contract with Bernheim-Jeune,
Paris, and took a house at Issy-les-Molineaux.
At the invitation of his patron, Sergei Shchukin,
he visited Moscow in 1911 and at the end of the year left for a visit to Tangier.