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Galerie HELENE BAILLY is delighted to celebrate the Fauve movement, a fundamental parenthesis of modernism. Among the selection of works celebrating the fauve style, Le Port d'Anvers, painted in 1906 by Émile Othon Friesz, is undoubtedly one of the most striking. Friesz spent that summer with his friend Georges Braque on the banks of the Scheldt, where each perfected his approach to Fauvism. This stay gave rise to some of Friesz's masterpieces, including Le Port d'Anvers. Here, perspective is cancelled out in favor of a superimposition of planes, structured by the colorful …