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
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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.
Source: Wikipedia
Where to see them
Museum of Fine Arts
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