Andre Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
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Andre Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
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Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, just outside Paris.
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Derain experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists.
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At Montmartre, Derain began to shift from the brilliant Fauvist palette to more muted tones, showing the influence of Cubism and Paul Cezanne.
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At about this time Derain's work began overtly reflecting his study of the Old Masters.
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Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, and traveled with other French artists to Berlin to attend a Nazi exhibition of an officially endorsed artist, Arno Breker.
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Andre Derain, photograph published in Gelett Burgess, "The Wild Men of Paris", Architectural Record, May 1910.
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