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and the fauvist principles of using colour would become a strong feature of his art. Andre
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regularly painted together at Paris Plage (Le
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in its quality. He joined with it an exceptional sense of colour, outspoken, ringing colours, rich and splendid in their very substance."
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of painters of which he was the first president. In 1943 he published his book on "Modern
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magazine and was to figure in many of Fergusson's canvases.
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