Andr Derain

Andr Derain
Andr Derain

Self-portrait in studio, c.1903 Born 10 June 1880Chatou, Yvelines, le-de-France 8 September 1954 (aged74)Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, le-de-France Painting, Sculpture Acadmie Camillo, Acadmie Julian

Died Field Training

Movement Fauvism

Andr Derain (10 June 1880 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.[1]

Biography
Early years
Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, le-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1898, while studying to be an engineer at the Acadmie Camillo,[2] he attended painting classes under Eugne Carrire, and there met Matisse. In 1900, he met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck and began to paint his first landscapes. His studies were interrupted from 1901 to 1904 when he was conscripted into the French army. Following his release from service, Matisse persuaded Derain's parents to allow him to abandon his engineering career and devote himself solely to painting; subsequently Derain attended the Acadmie Julian.[3]

Fauvism
Derain and Matisse worked together through the summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of Collioure and later that year displayed their highly innovative paintings at the Salon d'Automne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts", marking the start of the Fauvist movement. In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise Vollard sent Derain to London to compose a series of paintings with the city as subject. In 30 paintings (29 of which are still extant), Derain put forth a portrait of London that was radically different from anything done by previous painters of the city such as Whistler or Monet. With bold colors and compositions, Derain painted multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge. These London paintings remain among his most popular work. Art critic T.G Rosenthal: " Not since Monet has anyone made London seem so fresh and yet remain quintessentially English. Some of his views of the Thames use the Pointillist technique of multiple dots, although by this time, because the dots have become much larger, it is rather more simply the separation of colours called Divisionism and it is peculiarly effective in conveying the

Andr Derain fragmentation of colour in moving water in sunlight." [4] In 1907 art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased Derain's entire studio, granting Derain financial stability. He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. Fernande Olivier, Picasso's mistress at the time, described Derain[5] as: Slim, elegant, with a lively colour and enamelled black hair. With an English chic, somewhat striking. Fancy waistcoats, ties in crude colours, red and green. Always a pipe in his mouth, phlegmatic, mocking, cold, an arguer. At Montmartre, Derain began to shift from the brilliant Fauvist palette to more muted tones, showing the influence of Cubism and Paul Czanne.[6] (According to Gertrude Stein, there is a tradition that Derain discovered and was influenced by African sculpture before the Cubists did.[7] ) Derain supplied woodcuts in primitivist style for an edition of Guillaume Apollinaire's first book of prose, L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909). He displayed works at the Neue Knstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910,[8] in 1912 at the secessionist Der Blaue Reiter[9] and in 1913 at the seminal Armory Show in New York. He also illustrated a collection of poems by Max Jacob in 1912.

Towards a new classicism

At about this time Derain's work began overtly reflecting his study of the Old Masters. The role of color was reduced and forms became austere; the years 19111914 are sometimes referred to as his gothic period. In 1914 he was mobilized for military service in World War I and until his release in 1919 he would have little time for painting, although in 1916 he provided a set of illustrations for Andr Breton's first book, Mont de Piete. After the war, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism then ascendant. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an upholder of tradition.[10] In 1919 he designed the ballet La Boutique fantasque for Diaghilev, leader of the Ballets Russes.[11] A major success, it would lead to his creating many ballet designs. The 1920s marked the height of his success, as he was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 1928 and began to exhibit extensively abroadin London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dsseldorf, New York City and Cincinnati, Ohio.[5] During the German occupation of France in World War II, Derain lived primarily in Paris and was much courted by the Germans because he represented the prestige of French culture. Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, traveling with other French artists to Berlin to attend an exhibition by Nazi sculptor Arno Breker.[6] The Nazi propaganda machine naturally made much of Derain's presence in Germany, and after the Liberation he was branded a collaborator and ostracized by many former supporters. A year before his death, he contracted an eye infection from which he never fully recovered. He died in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, le-de-France, France in 1954 when he was struck by a moving vehicle.[12] Today, paintings by Derain sell for as much as US$6 million. The London paintings were the subject of a major exhibition at the Courtauld Institute 20052006.

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Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Landscape in Provence (Paysage de Provence) (c. 1908), Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn

Portrait of a Girl in Black (1913), State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper (1911-1914), State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

References
[1] Sabine, Rewald. "Fauvism" (http:/ / www. metmuseum. org/ toah/ hd/ fauv/ hd_fauv. htm). from Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. . Retrieved 2007-12-17. [2] Cowling and Mundy, 1990, p.92 [3] "International Painting and Sculpture - Le Cavalier au cheval blanc" (http:/ / www. nga. gov. au/ international/ Catalogue/ Detail. cfm?ViewID=1& MnuID=2& GalID=4& SubViewID=1& BioArtistIRN=12005& IRN=98696). National Gallery of Australia. . Retrieved 2007-12-17. [4] Tom Rosenthal, reviewing Derain's London paintings on show at the Courtauld Gallery, The Independent 4 December 2005 [5] Clement, 1994, p.396 [6] "Works on View: Andr Derain" (http:/ / www. guggenheimlasvegas. org/ past/ exhibition_187_work_md_575. html). Guggenheim Hermitage Museum. . Retrieved 2007-12-18. [7] Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=jGnXrfaioxQC& pg=PT59& dq=Picassoites+ and+ were+ definitely+ not+ Matisseites& hl=en& ei=GZhATMfhK4OB8gaT2bzrDw& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=Derain Negro& f=false) [8] Hamilton, 1993, p.207 [9] Sotriffer, 1972, p.59 [10] Cowling and Mundy, 1990, pp.9293 [11] australiadancing (http:/ / www. australiadancing. org/ subjects/ 4861. html) [12] "Andr Derain Biography" (http:/ / www. andre-derain. de/ e/ index. shtml). Namen der Kunst. Art Directory GmbH. . Retrieved 2008-01-03.

Further reading
Clement, Russell (1994). Les Fauves: A Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-28333-8. Cowling, Elizabeth; Mundy, Jennifer (1990). On Classic Ground: Picasso, Lger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 19101930. London: Tate Gallery. ISBN 1-85437-043-X Hamilton, George Heard (1993). Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 18801940. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-05649-4. Sotriffer, Kristian (1972). Expressionism and Fauvism. McGraw-Hill. OCLC1149407.

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External links
Andr Derain: A Virtual Art Gallery (http://www.halter.net/gallery/derain-tr.html) Derain, Andr (http://serdar-hizli-art.com/modern_painting/derain_andre.htm) Ten Dreams Galleries (http://www.tendreams.org/derain.htm) Works by Andr Derain (public domain in Canada)

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