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Henri Fauconnier
Henri Fauconnier (26 February 1879 Villa Musset Barbezieux (Charente) – 14 April 1973 Paris) was a French writer, known mainly for his novel "Malaisie", which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He was part of the Groupe de Barbezieux.
Family.
Fauconnier was the son of Charles, a brandy dealer who operated on his property near Cru Chevanceaux, and Melanie. Melanie Fauconnier lived in Limoges, where she was the best friend of Anna Haviland of Haviland porcelain. Haviland had
Fauconnier, Gris and others to experiment with ever more complex multiple views of the same subject, and, eventually to the fracturing of form. Cézanne thus sparked one of the most revolutionary areas of artistic enquiry of the 20th century, one which was to affect profoundly the development of modern art.
Influences Gauguin and Primitivism.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the European cultural elite were discovering African, Oceanic and Native American art. Artists such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Picasso were intrigued and inspired by