Word: derains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite consistently high prices, few Cézannes were offered for sale. Among the contemporary painters, Matisse fetched the highest prices ($19,000 for an early fauve portrait). Derain, whose market had been irregular until his death last year, is expected to improve. Picasso is doing well, with interest centered in his early periods. Because of small output and resulting short supply. Modiglianis are likely to remain expensive (about...
Green Hair. The pure Matisse emerged at Paris' Autumn Salon of 1905. His works were hung in a room apart, with those of some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green...
...late French Artist André Derain used so much violent color in his paintings that a critic once remarked of them that "someone has thrown a pot of paint into the public's face." It has now been revealed that after he was fatally injured in an auto accident last summer, Derain woke up in a white-walled hospital room, attended by doctors in white, and murmured: "Some red, show me some red, before dying I want to see some red and some green...
Died. Andre Derain, 74, one of the leading French painters of the 20th century; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Garches, France. A member, with Rouault and Matisse, of the uninhibited Fauvist movement in Paris at the turn of the century, tall, simplicity-loving Artist Derain ("The great danger for art lies in an excess of culture") later dabbled with cubism, finally turned to a personalized style of calm, uncluttered elegance that put him among the world's most respected painters...
France featured a group show of such grand old men as Rouault, Matisse and Derain, together with a raggle-taggle of young abstractionists clearly unfit to maintain the greatness of the School of Paris...