André Derain

French painter and engraver (1880–1954)

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Lived 1880–1954, aged 74France

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1880–1954
Aged 74

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Updated 2026-05-29

Co-founded Fauvism with Matisse and spent 1905–1906 painting in wild, riotous color before pivoting hard toward austere Cézanne studies. Post-WWI, he led the Return to Order movement, proving French artists could reinvent themselves twice before breakfast.

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André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of Cézanne and the old masters. After the First World War, Derain became one of the leaders of the new classicism in the arts known as the Return to order.

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