ANDRE DERAIN

Andre Derain was born in 1880 in France. He was the co-founder of the Fauvism with Henri Matisse. 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.  Derain painted multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge. These London paintings remain among his most popular work. ZAfter moving to Montmarte to be close to Van Gogh and his friends, he started using more pale colors tahn the brighter ones in Fauvism. His paintings also showed the properties of Cubism and Paul Cezanne.


 Charing Cross Bridge
 Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper


*Clement, Russell (1994). Les Fauves: A Sourcebook. Greenwood Press
*http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain