Jean Puy, Ambroise Vollard. Un Fauve et son marchand. Egypte is mainly known from the

is mainly known from the "Rosetta Stone" (kept in London at the British Museum) but also from the "Stele of Nobaireh" (Cairo

all from the 3rd century BC

while his later works testify to his humanist vision of man

reasonable

It places this art in the international

Jean Puy, Ambroise Vollard. Un Fauve et son marchand. Egypte is mainly known from theJean Puy (1876 1960) participated in the famous Salon d'Automne of 1905, during which the "Fauves" group appeared. Alongside Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Manguin, Camoin and Marquet, this young painter presented bold canvases with a dense palette and swift brushstrokes, which exuded great freedom of expression. Interested, the dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866 1939) bought his entire studio. This was the beginning of a collaboration lasting some twenty