
“ANDRÉ DERAIN 1904–1914: THE RADICAL DECADE”
Between two bouts of military service in 1904 and 1914, André Derainone of the original Fauves and certainly the best not named Matisseexecuted three bodies of work that secured his place in the second tier of avant-garde painting. Daring color experiments in dialogue with Matisse (while both were staying in Collioure, France, in the summer of 1905) and a series painted in London the next year at the urging of dealer Ambroise Vollard were followed by a group of bathing pictures, which manage to almost hold their own despite the fact that they were begun the