FAUVISTa is a digital exploration of the Fauvist colors and brushstrokes in André Derain's 1905 "Bateaux à Collioure." You can spend as long as you like strolling FAUVISTa, but it’s a compact world.
In 1905, painter Henri Matisse invited young Parisian artist André Derain to join him in the French fishing village of Collioure. Inspired by the exquisite light of the Mediterranean, the two men ...
Such was the shocked response to their work that a critic dubbed them the fauves, or "wild beasts". The "wild beasts" were artists such as Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck. Their ...
The newly opened exhibition features French masterpieces from the likes of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck. Kunstmuseum Basel in Basel, Switzerland has opened a major ...
In 1920, the French painter André Derain, in the mood of nausea and exhaustion that temporarily ended the history of modern art after the first world war, wrote an essay in praise of Raphael. In it he ...
In a blow to French museums, the Paris court of appeal has ordered the restitution of three landscapes by André Derain from two public collections to the grandchildren of the Jewish art dealer René ...
It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...
André Derain is an artist who is a small fish in a big pond. He had the fortune to befriend Maurice de Vlaminck with whom he became known as one of the "Fauve" painters, depicting nature and figures ...