André Derain - Lumière blonde et dorée

Le peintre, graveur et illustrateur André Derain (1880-1954) est avec Henri Matisse l'un des fondateurs majeurs du fauvisme.
André Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris. In 1895, Derain began to study on his own, contrary to claims that meeting Vlaminck or Matisse began his efforts to paint, and occasionally went to the countryside with an old friend of Cézanne's, Father Jacomin along with his two sons. In 1898, while studying to be an engineer at the Académie Camillo, he attended painting classes under Eugène Carrière, and there met Matisse. In 1900, he met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck and together they began to paint scenes in the neighbourhood.

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Journal de l’art moderne - Skira
Dictionnaire universel de la peinture – Le Robert
Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Jean Mineraud – Les dessous du visible