Clues

• Born:  December 31, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France

• Art Period: Modern

• "He didn’t start painting until he was twenty, but once he started he never stopped. At the beginning of his career, in Paris, he pioneered the Fauvist style, which utilized loud, vibrant colors and twisted forms."

• " He created this gigantic collage (Ivy in Flower) just a year before he died.  Illness had left him unable to paint in his old age, but the will of the artist was too strong to give up creating. Bound to a wheelchair, he began working in a new medium: collage."

•  "Though his switch from painting to collage was due to his physical limitations, the works were as joyous as ever, becoming some of his most renowned and influential pieces."

• Died: November 3, 1954, Nice, France