André Derain

Artist

André Derain
1880 - France - 1964

Dealer

Peter Pappot Kunsthandel

André Derain French painter

born June 10, 1880, Chatou, France died September 8, 1954, Garches Main

French painter, sculptor, printmaker, and designer who was one of the principal Fauvists.

Derain studied painting in Paris at the Académie Carriere from 1898 to 1899. He developed his early style in association with Maurice de Vlaminck, whom he met in 1900, and with Henri Matisse, who had been Derain’s fellow student at the Académie Carriere. Together with these two painters, Derain was one of the major exponents of Fauvism from 1905 to 1908. Like the other artists who worked in this style, he painted landscapes and figure studies in brilliant, sometimes pure colours and used broken brushstrokes and impulsive lines to define his spontaneous compositions.