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 ...

Matisse, meanwhile, captures Derain looking away, his thoughts elsewhere, in a loose application of light reds, greens, and blues. André Derain, Woman with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono, 1905, ...

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 ...

How did André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck ... The playwright Sacha Guitry acknowledges in his memoirs being contacted. Madame Matisse was imprisoned but not deported, and survived the war. So did ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse summoned his friend André Derain to the seaside town of Collioure ...

The third gallery is dedicated to the work of Matisse’s wife, Amélie, who modeled for both men. Derain’s painting of her, “Woman with a Shawl, Madame Matisse in a Kimono,” is beautiful.

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 ...

At the exhibition he met André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck ... Dating from 1905, it is known as Portrait of Madame Matisse: The Green Line. In colouration it has echoes of Van Gogh’s ...

With a collection of around 160 masterful work, some long shrouded from public view, the exhibition delves deep into the kaleidoscopic world of colour experimentation led by Fauvism's pioneers, ...