Salon d'Automne
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French art exhibition
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Paris
- Image
- Georges Dufrénoy Vue de Lyon.jpg
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- native label
- Salon d'Automne
- month of the year
- October
- Commons category
- Salon d'Automne
- start time
- 1903-10-31
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Encyclopedic overview
Catalogue of first Salon d'Automne, 1903 Salon d'Automne, 1905, catalogue cover. Fauvism was launched at this exhibition
The Salon d'Automne ( French: [salɔ̃ dotɔn]; English: Autumn Salon), or Société du Salon d'automne, is an art exhibition held annually in Paris. Since 2011, it is held on the Champs-Élysées, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, in mid-October. The first Salon d'Automne was created in 1903 by Frantz Jourdain, with Hector Guimard, George Desvallières, Eugène Carrière, Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard, Eugène Chigot and Maison Jansen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salon d'Automne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.