Salon des Indépendants
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Salon des Indépendants is an exhibition of free artists held annually since the 10th of December 1884 in Paris, France. Founded by Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Armand Guillaumin, and Odilon Redon, refusing the academism of the official "Salon", it is organized by the Société des Artistes Indépendants, created the 11th of June 1884.
Although sustained by Mesureur, deputy chairman of tne Council of Paris and Great Master of the Grand Lodge of France, by Frédéric Hattat, chairman of the Fine Art commission in the same council, by Albert Dubois-Pillet, commanding the Republican Guard, member of the Grand Orient de France, the beginning of the Company, considered as a nest of revolutionaries, are difficult. But at the beginning of the 20th century, all the tendencies of the Ecole de Paris will succeed to one another in the Salon des Indépendants: neo-impressionism, fauvism, cubism. In 1920, the Société des Artistes Indépendants obtains the Grand Palais for the exhibitions of its Salon.
After WWII, the Salon des Indépendants is renewed with the realist movement: Dunoyer de Segonzac, Bernard Buffet, Jean Carzou, Maurice Boitel, Yves Brayer, Aristide Caillaud, Daniel du Janerand...
Famous exhibitors
- Jean Monneret, president
- Maurice Boitel
- Georges Braque
- Bernard Buffet
- Jean Carzou
- Marc Chagall
- Giorgio de Chirico
- Alberto Giacometti
- Wassili Kandinsky
- Henri Matisse
- Joan Miro
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Piet Mondrian
- Edvard Munch
- Odilon Redon
- Henri Rousseau
- Paul Signac
- Alfred Sisley
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1889)
- Vincent Van Gogh (1889 and 1890)
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