Henri Charles Manguin (1874 – 1949) was a French painter, associated with the Fauves.
Manguin was greatly influenced by Impressionism, as is seen in his use of bright pastel hues.
An important representative of the Expressionist movement, and one of the most stylishly colourful of 20th century painters, Henri-Charles Manguin was a member of the Fauvism movement that sprang to prominence in 1905, after the art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) christened them "Fauves" (wild beasts) for their garish use of colour at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. Although like all the Fauvist painters Manguin inclined towards landscape painting, he also produced some outstanding female nudes - a few reminiscent of works by Henri Matisse (1867-1954) - as well as a quantity of still life painting. In 1906 he also experimented briefly with Neo-impressionism. Because of his love of bright but not garish colour, and because he preferred working on small-scale pictures, his style of expressionism became very popular with French art collectors.
