André Derain
France • 1880 - 1954
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André Derain (1880-1954) is one of the founders of Fauvism. He is also a painter of sets and costumes for ballets and the theater, engraver, illustrator, sculptor and writer.
Hailed as the pioneer of a new art, fauvism, before the war of 1914, he turned after 1918 to a realism with a renewed classicism which expressed his taste for the theater and letters, which made him one of the major figures of the interwar period.
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André Derain (1880-1954) is one of the founders of Fauvism. He is also a painter of sets and costumes for ballets and the theater, engraver, illustrator, sculptor and writer.
Hailed as the pioneer of a new art, fauvism, before the war of 1914, he turned after 1918 to a realism with a renewed classicism which expressed his taste for the theater and letters, which made him one of the major figures of the interwar period.
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