Matisse, Derain and the Origin of Fauvism,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art cuts to the chase, narrowing the field to Fauvism’s two leaders, Henri Matisse and André Derain, and abstaining from ...

We can’t fully appreciate how astonished they were on seeing the pictures produced by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and André Derain (1880-1954) in the summer of 1905, when they were working in the ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.

It was Derain who encouraged Matisse, as he painted Femme au chapeau, to treat color as he would any material like clay or wood. Matisse and Derain had both trained with Gustave Moreau at the ...

For Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and André Derain (1880–1954), a single such summer spent painting together in 1905, in the Mediterranean fishing village of Collioure, led to what we now know as Fauvism, ...

Did nine short weeks in the summer of 1905 change the course of painting? The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s latest exhibition argues that the foundation of Modernism can be traced back to two ...

The "wild beasts" were artists such as Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck. Their style of painting, known as fauvism, had a lasting impact on 20th-century art. For Derain ...

Privatsammlung The Dance (1906) by André Derain (Credit: Privatsammlung) Fauvism might have lasted just five years, but this autumn it is back in the limelight with Vertigo of Colour: Matisse ...

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Matisse fare in Paris during the Nazi occupation 1940-44? Given that their Fauve works in German museums had been seized ...

Comparatively little is said about the earlier influence of the Fauves, led by Henri Matisse and his friend André Derain, who carried the radical ideas of post-Impressionists like Cézanne and ...

Matisse’s companion in creating fauve landscapes, André Derain, later recalled their sense of artistic violence. “Colors became sticks of dynamite,” he said. “They were primed to ...