Word: derains
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...frequently complained that the Metropolitan owns only one Cezanne and has recently kept it out of sight; naturally this can bring no great woe to Critic Cortissoz. Nor must he feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On the other hand, idling along its corridors, he may visit many collections greatly to his liking. There is an extensive U. S. group. The Italian collection is noteworthy, including a Tiepolo ceiling and a roomful of Primitives among which is an Aretino and a Segna di Bonaventura. There may also be seen...
...enough time in the Louvre, copying Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon des Indépendents, made him the captain of a brave and gay brigade: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Emil Othon Friesz, Raoul Dufy and indisputably first among them, Henri Matisse...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas of the Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne Hebuterne who bore him a child. He was known as the poorest man in Paris. Meanwhile he painted steadily and achieved a personal style...
...paintings by Derain include "Pheasants and Table," 1928; "The Flute Player," 1915; "Back of a Woman's Head," 1928; and "Still Life," 1910 as well as a number of drawings and water colors...