Word: derain
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...days when Pittsburgh's art show, the Carnegie International, was really international, only a handful of Americans could break in. France's Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Derain usually won top honors. During the war, Carnegie went all-American. Last week, in its Romanesque stone-pile set in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, the Carnegie Institute put on what will presumably be its last purely U.S. show, and invited 350 U.S. artists-the most ever-to show their wares. It was still, in prestige at least, the biggest annual U.S. art event, as it has been since...
...Painters Andre Derain, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz, and Sculptor Charles Despiau were in disgrace as collaborationists...
...Painter Vlaminck met Painter Andre Derain. The two became friends, shared a ramshackle studio. Later Derain, Vlaminck, Henry Matisse and others formed the "Fauves" ("Wild Beasts") group, whose paintings were characterized by uninhibited emotional violence...
...auction. At the book sale particularly, connoisseurs held their seats as the prices skyrocketed. The Manet ellustrées published in 1929, containing Manet watercolor reproductions in color, went for $360-though its Paris price ten years ago was around $30. The collection was a market sensation from Derain to Dufy, from Rouault to Renoir. It was strongest in works by Crowninshield's old friends, French Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church...
...French Painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowsky) offered a wicked portrait of his friend French Painter André Derain in his dressing gown one bilious morning-after-the-week-before...