André Derain was one of the leaders of the original Fauve group. Persuaded to devote himself to painting by Vlaminck, Derain and Vlaminck shared an interest in building paintings out of strong colors. Through his friendship with Matisse, Derain drew Vlaminck, a more resolute outsider, into the Fauvist moment, and the basic grouping of artists was completed. After several years, the artists involved went off in different directions. For Derain, that meant working through Cezanne and following the Cubist innovations of Picasso and Braque; for Vlaminck, it meant working his way through Cezanne to Van Gogh and then distilling an intensely personal style of his own from the art he had imbibed. While prints were central to Vlaminck and Matisse's artistic activity, they were more peripheral to Derain, and his print oeuvre is much smaller than Matisse's and somewhat smaller than Vlaminck's. There is an unobtainable catalogue raisonne of the prints by Jean Adhemar, Julian Cain, and Jean Valery-Radot, L'oeuvre grave de Derain (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1955) prepared for a memorial exhibition of Derain's prints from the B.N.'s holdings. There is also a small study by David Sawyer, Prints by Andre Derain (n.p.: 1988), who notes that "The full-length standing nude was a pose that interested Derain from the twenties onward. The modeling . . . is done with a strong outline and accurate shading; some areas within the shadoes are re-enforced which gives a luminous quality to the surface" (p. 58). Like his fellow Fauves Matisse and Vlaminck, Derain has won recognition as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century (all three are represented in Edward Lucie-Smith's Lives of the Great 20th-Century Artists [1999], which focuses on the author's top 100 artists of the century). Derain's work is included in all of the great museums of modern art in the world and, as the bibliography below suggests, is still the focus of important retrospectives in major museums in the US and Europe.

Select Bibliography: Guillaume Apollinaire, Andrè Breton, and Alberto Giacometti, Andre Derain, ed. Jean Leymarie (Paris. Grand Palais, 1977); Bernadette Contensou, Hommage à Andre Derain (Paris. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980); Pieter Coray, Andre Derain, Bildhauer (Milano: Electa, 1994); Andre Derain, Lettres à Vlaminck. (Paris: Flammarion, 1955); Gaston Diehl, Andre Derain (New York: Crown, 1977); Frank Elgar, Derain. Exposition à Marseille, Musée Cantini (Marseille: Musée Cantini, 1964); Elie Faure, A. Derain (Paris: Les Editions G. Crès et Cie, 1923); Georges Hilaire, Derain (Geneva: Pierre Cailler Editeru, 1959); Michel Kellermann, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Peint. Complete in 3 volumes (Paris: Galerie Schmit, 1992- 99); Jane Lee, Derain (Oxford: Phaidon/NY: Universe, 1990); Jean Leymarie, Derain: An exhibition of paintings and theatre designs (Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Academy, 1967); Isabelle Monod-Fontaine et al., Andre Derain: An Outsider in French Art (Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2007); Jacqueline Munck, Derain (Giunti Editore, 2007); Suzanne Pagè, Andre Derain (Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1995); Denys Sutton, Andrè Derain, 1880-1954 (London: Wildenstein, 1957); Dominique Szymusiak & Josephine Matamoros, Matisse-Derain: 1905, Une été a Collioure (Paris: Gallimard, 2005); Malcolm Vaughan, Derain (New York: Hyperion Press, 1941).

Seated Nude. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (530x400mm) with the Atelier stamp and the estate sale stamp aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Rare. Image size: 235x250mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Standing Nude in Profile. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (530x400mm) with the Atelier stamp and the estate sale stamp aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Diagonal handling crease through bottom right of sheet. Rare. Image size: 335x245mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Standing Nude Facing Front. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (530x400mm) with the Atelier stamp and the estate sale stamp aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Rare. Image size: 343x170mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Standing Nude in Profile Facing Front. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (525x400mm) with the Atelier stamp verso aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Handling creases top right corner and upper left away from image. Rare. Image size: 270x230mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Nu de Dos / Nude seen from the rear. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (525x400mm) with the Atelier stamp aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Handling creases lower right and lower left corners away from image. Rare. Image size: 285x225mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

Nu de Dos / Nude seen from the rear. Original lithograph, 1928. Unpublished proof on imitation Japan paper (525x400mm) with the Atelier stamp aside from the Six Etudes de Nu (cf. Adhemar 87). Handling creases lower right and lower left corners away from image; this is the view as matted. Rare. Image size: 285x225mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.

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