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Derain

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Derain
Andr? . 1880--1954, French painter, noted for his Fauvist pictures (1905--08)


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After "Parade", Diaghilev increasingly turned to international avant garde artists to work with him -- Matisse, Braque, Miro, De Chirico, and Derain -- breaking the monopoly of painter-decorators in designing scenery.
Records were set for Andre Derain, with "Barques au port de Collioure" fetching $14,082,500, roughly twice the pre-sale estimate, and for Kees Van Dongen with "Jeune Arabe," which sold for $13,802,500.
In the late 19th century, at the zenith of the European colonial "scramble for Africa", these masks reached the European art market and caught the attention of artists especially in Paris, including Derain and Picasso.
 
 
 
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