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Summary: Since a few years the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag organizes a series of small presentations in its new Triton Room. The focus is on the collection of the Triton Foundation, a unique private collection built up with great care over the past 15 years. The collection of the Triton Foundation focuses on masterpieces that represent the true artistic innovators in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. This ties in perfectly with the focus of the Gemeentemuseum's collection. The idea is to put together a number of carefully selected presentations with works from the Triton Collection and the Gemeentemuseum's collection. Following the presentations on the art of the Russian revolution, 19th-century French landscape painting, developments 1950-65, various faces of Cubism, 19th- and 20th-century portraits and the Nabis, this 7th presentation focuses on colour. Work by Matisse, Derain, De Vlaminck, Van Dongen, Klee, Kandinsky, Nolde and Beckmann. The exhibition shows us the development of colour as an independent expressive purpose. 11 April - 6 September 2009.