André DERAIN - London - Hyde Park, 1906, signed lithograph

André Derain : (1880-1954) was a french painter, and one of the founders of Fauvism, of which he is considered to be the best representative. Ses oeuvres sont conservées dans les plus grands musées du monde. He painted figures, portraits, nudes, landscapes, marines, still lifes, and used several techniques: gouache, watercolors, pastels. He entered the Académie Camillo with Eugène Carrière and met Henri Matisse a the Louvre where he was making copies. In 1900, he met Maurice de Vlaminck on the train. He started painting his first landscapes. Il commence à peindre ses premiers paysages. He was a self-taught person, and he spent a lot of time in the museums, feeding his esthetic reflexion, with a great amound of readings (Zola, Nietzsche...). Vincent van Gogh, who he discovered in 1901, had a decisive influence on him, as well as the neo-impressionnists, and most of all Cézanne. He joined Matisse in Collioure in 1905, where they defined the style which made him famous: the fauvism. After 1906, he seemed to get influence from Paul Gauguin, as his colours started to be less vivid. But the next year he spent time at the Bateau-Lavoir, where he met Picasso and Matisse a with whom he traveled in Barcelona in 1910. In 1907, he tried stone sculpture, and moved to Montmartre to get closer to his friend Pablo Picasso. Starting from 1911, he comes back to a more traditional painting, using perspective and claroscuro. In 1919, he worked for ballet Diaghilev's ballet "La Boutique fantasque", which brought him to create numerous decors and costumes. His reputation grew more when he received the Carnegie Prize in 1928, and he started to exhibit worldwide: London, Berlin, Krankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York... After the war, he gave up public presentations of his works. In 1944, he declined the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (ENSBA). He ended his life in a voluntary loneliness, and died on September the 8th, in 1958, following a car accident.

Troyes Museum of Modern Art (France)
EG Bührle Collection Foundation (Switzerland)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes (France)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Columbus museum of art (The USA)
Cantini Museum (France)
The Orsay Museum (France)
Ziem Museum (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
LAM (Lille Métropole Modern Art Museum) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
Ashmolean Museum of Art (United Kingdom)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
Lehmbruck Museum (Germany)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France)
Statens Museum for Kunst (Denmark)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Angladon-Dubrujeaud Museum (France)
Grenoble Museum (France)
Orangery Museum (France)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
Israel Museum (Israel)
Phoenix Art Museum (The USA)
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Spain)
Albertina (Austria)
MAMBA - Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Cantor Art Center - The Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford (The USA)
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) (The USA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
Bemberg Foundation (France)
Nancy Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Jonas Netter Collection (France)
Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)
Oklahoma City Museum of Art (The USA)
Malraux Museum (France)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Michael Werner Collection (France)
Auckland Art Gallery (Australia)
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand)
Canton Museum of Art (The USA)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
The Spencer and Marlène Hays Collection (The USA)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
National Gallery of Australia (NGA) (Australia)
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
Heckscher Museum of Art (The USA)
MacKenzie Art Gallery (Canada)
Carleton University Art Gallery (Canada)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada)
Cà Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna (Italy)
Eli ans Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Die Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung (Switzerland)
Museum of Fine Arts of Calais (France)
Pully Museum (Switzerland)
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-e-Fonds (Switzerland)
Center for engraving and printed images (Belgium)