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André Derain
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Peintre et co-créateur du mouvement fauve, le peintre André Derain s’est éteint à Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), près de Paris, le 8 septembre 1954 ; il avait 74 ans. Il repose auprès de son épouse au cimetière de Chambourcy (Yvelines), commune où il possédait une vaste et belle propriété, « La Roseraie », dans laquelle il vécut et travailla les vingt dernières années de sa vie. Il finit sa vie dans une solitude volontaire. En son hommage, avec respect, une fleur rouge à cœur jaune.
"Les idées ne suffisent pas, il faut le miracle." - André Derain
"Il est stupide de vouloir exprimer dans un coin de rue toute la synthèse des émotions qu'un pays vous fait éprouver... " - André Derain
"Derain ne voulait peut-être que fixer un peu l’apparence des choses, l’apparence merveilleuse, attrayante et inconnue de tout ce qui l’entourait. Derain est le peintre qui me passionne le plus, qui m’a le plus apporté et le plus appris depuis Cézanne, il est pour moi le plus audacieux." - Alberto Giacometti
"Derain a tout fait. Il a choisi la musique et l'orchestrateur. Il a écrit le sujet du ballet pour finir par faire ce pour quoi il avait du génie, c'est-à-dire les costumes et les décors." - Roland Petit
"La couleur est la matérialisation de la lumière. C'est donc une matérialisation de l'esprit. La couleur fixe la lumière. Où il y a lumière, il y a esprit." - André Derain
"On n'organise pas le spirituel. On n'organise seulement le concret, le limité, le nécessaire." - André Derain
Notes of biography
Andre Derain was born in Chatou, near Paris, in 1880. He learnt painting with Jacomin’s painter and went regularly to the Academy Camillo (Paris, 1898). In 1900, he bound a friendship with Maurice de Vlaminck and the two friends shared a same atelier in the island of Chatou. He painted realistic landscapes then. The two men worked together.
In 1904, Derain painted canvases with pure colors with the desire to free his paintings from any conventional and restrictive contact. In 1905, he exhibited to the Salon des Indépendants, then to the Salon d’Automne in the room known as “La cage aux fauves”. André Derain became one of the leaders of the Fauvism. His topics were the landscape, the portrait, the self-portrait. This same year, Ambroise Vollard’s merchant bought him everything he created in his atelier.
Derain stayed in Collioure with Henri Matisse, and discovered a new concept of the light there, applying to his canvases a multiplicity of small amount of vivid colors. From 1907, Derain painted simpler forms and geometrical ones, with more neutral colors, seeking to make a synthesis between classicism and modernity.
With the war in 1914, Derain was mobilized; he took part in the Somme’s actions, then in Verdun. His first personal exhibition was organized during the war, in 1916.
In 1919, Derain created decorations and costumes for ballets. Between the two world war period, André Derain carried out a more realistic and traditional painting, in reference to the previous paintmasters; he was always devoted to his own topics (nude, portraits, landscapes), but also carried out figures compositions or bunches of flowers.
During the Second World War, he travelled with French artists in Germany (1941); although he refused all German orders or purchases, this trip made him known a time of popular rejection in the post-war period.
In the same time of painting, Derain illustrated books (Apollinaire, Rabelais, etc), and created a graphic work.
André Derain died in Garches, near Paris, in 1954.
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Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« A. Derain, l’oeuvre sculpté », 1ere partie, Pierre Cailler, Ed. P. Cailler, Lausanne, 1965 *« L’oeuvre gravé et lithographié de A. Derain », E. Gilbert, Université de Paris IV, 1981 *« A. Derain, l’oeuvre peint », 2 Vol., M. Kellermann, Ed. Galerie Schmit, 1992 All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Eloge de Derain », M. Sandoz, Bruker, 1959
- « André Derain », N. Katilina, Aurora, 1976
- « Derain », G. Diehl, Flammarion, 1991
- « André Derain, le peintre du trouble moderne », MAM de la Ville de Paris, 1994
- « André Derain », Pierre Cabanne, coll. Folio Essais, Ed. Folio, 1994
- « André Derain : Le peintre du trouble moderne », cat. Ed. Paris-Musées, 1997
- « André Derain, le titan foudroyé », Michel Charzat, Ed. Hazan, 2015
- « André Derain : 1904/1914… », C. Debray, cat. d'expo., Ed. Centre Pompidou, 2017
- « Derain : Un fauve pas ordinaire », P. Bachelard, Découvertes Gallimard, 2017
- « André Derain », Hors série expo, Ed. Connaissance des Arts, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Lettres à Vlaminck », Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1955
- « Lettres à Henri Matisse », Ed. L'Echoppe, 2017
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Stamp by André Derain
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ A tribute to...
See all the tribute pages...
A tribute to André Derain
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Peintre et co-créateur du mouvement fauve, le peintre André Derain s’est éteint à Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), près de Paris, le 8 septembre 1954 ; il avait 74 ans. Il repose auprès de son épouse au cimetière de Chambourcy (Yvelines), commune où il possédait une vaste et belle propriété, « La Roseraie », dans laquelle il vécut et travailla les vingt dernières années de sa vie. Il finit sa vie dans une solitude volontaire. En son hommage, avec respect, une fleur rouge à cœur jaune.
"Les idées ne suffisent pas, il faut le miracle." - André Derain
"Il est stupide de vouloir exprimer dans un coin de rue toute la synthèse des émotions qu'un pays vous fait éprouver... " - André Derain
"Derain ne voulait peut-être que fixer un peu l’apparence des choses, l’apparence merveilleuse, attrayante et inconnue de tout ce qui l’entourait. Derain est le peintre qui me passionne le plus, qui m’a le plus apporté et le plus appris depuis Cézanne, il est pour moi le plus audacieux." - Alberto Giacometti
"Derain a tout fait. Il a choisi la musique et l'orchestrateur. Il a écrit le sujet du ballet pour finir par faire ce pour quoi il avait du génie, c'est-à-dire les costumes et les décors." - Roland Petit
"La couleur est la matérialisation de la lumière. C'est donc une matérialisation de l'esprit. La couleur fixe la lumière. Où il y a lumière, il y a esprit." - André Derain
"On n'organise pas le spirituel. On n'organise seulement le concret, le limité, le nécessaire." - André Derain
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