Andre Derain: Southern Passages, Exhibition, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris: 21 September 2022-6 March 2023

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Influenced by the great masters, André Derain (1880-1954) returned to a more classical production during the inter-war period.

More than a simple “return to order”, his landscapes of Provence prized by Paul Guillaume reveal a very intense reflection around light.

André Derain is the most represented painter in the collection of the Musée de l'Orangerie, with around thirty paintings. Among them, six landscapes produced around 1930 recall the artist's attachment to nature, which he has painted constantly since his Fauvist beginnings. With more than two hundred landscape canvases painted in this period, almost all of which passed through the hands of Paul Guillaume, this sample is revealing Derain's work.

The six canvases in this presentation are accompanied by documents that bear witness to Derain's relationship with classical painting (Poussin, Courbet, Corot, Cézanne), his legendary but controversial artistic status, his relationship with the art dealer Paul Guillaume as well as then his more theoretical research on the nature of art.

Andre Derain, The road, in 1932, oil on canvas, H.65; W. 50 cm with frame H. 88; L. 74 cm, © RMN-Grand Palais (Orangerie Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski
Andre Derain, The road, in 1932, oil on canvas, H.65; W. 50 cm with frame H. 88; L. 74 cm, © RMN-Grand Palais (Orangerie Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski

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