Paysage à l'Estaque (Estaque Landscape)

The French artist André Derain was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, stage designer and collector. He worked alongside Matisse, Vlaminck and Cézanne, and later became a close friend of Braque and Picasso. Derain was fascinated by the effects of the intense Mediterranean light, and around 1904 began to juxtapose broad strokes of contrasting hues, making colours seem brighter and more vibrant because of their proximity. When he took part in an exhibition in 1905, the group were branded fauves (wild beasts). In 1949, Derain recollected, “Fauvism was our ordeal by fire… Colours became charges of dynamite!”. The Auckland Art Gallery has one work on paper by Derain.

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