French1880–1954
André Derain
A French painter who, with Matisse, invented Fauvism in the summer of 1905, using pure, unnatural colour straight from the tube.
A life in paintings
- 1880Born
- 1905The Fauves shock Paris
At the Salon d’Automne a critic calls the painters of wild colour ‘fauves’ — wild beasts.
Worked with Henri MatisseCollioureMatisse and Derain spent summer 1905 painting together at Collioure and came back with the unnatural colour that got them called 'les fauves' at that autumn's Salon d'Automne.
Source: Wikipedia - 1906
- 1954Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Exhibition · Paris · 1905
Salon d'Automne 1905 (Fauves)
The show where critic Louis Vauxcelles called Matisse, Derain and their circle 'les fauves'. Rousseau's jungle picture The Hungry Lion hung near Matisse's work, though Rousseau was not a Fauve.
Where to see them
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston
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