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André Derain
Purchased with assistance from the Knapping Fund, the Art Fund and the Contemporary Art Society and private subscribers 1954
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<p>Matisse and Derain painted portraits of each other while staying at the port of Collioure in the south of France. Using vivid, apparently arbitrary, colours, Matisse has captured the sensation of sunlight striking the sitter's face and casting a heavy shadow down one side. He has also tried to create a dynamic but balanced relationship between complementary colours, such as blue and orange, red and green. Complementary colours 'complete' each other: they are at their most intense when placed together. Matisse adjusted his colours to obtain the maximum intensity. This non-naturalistic use of colour can be seen as a radical development of certain aspects of Impressionist art, and it led the critics to dub Matisse a 'fauve' (wild beast).</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
18 June 2005 – 22 January 2006
2006-01-22
18 June 2005 – 2 October 2005
2005-10-02
2005-06-18
Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret (Céret, France)
22 October 2005 – 22 January 2006
2006-01-22
2005-10-22
Musée Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France)
http://www.cg59.fr/matisse
2005-06-18
Matisse, Derrain - Collioure
Loan-out
24 September 2008 – 19 April 2009
2009-04-19
24 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-09-24
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2008-09-24
Matisse - Menschen Masken Modelle
Loan-out
13 March 2009 – 15 June 2009
2009-06-15
13 March 2009 – 15 June 2009
2009-06-15
2009-03-13
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, France)
http://www.ville-dijon.fr
2009-03-13
Fauves Hongroi 1904 - 1914: La leçon de Matisse
Loan-out
12 November 2010 – 27 March 2011
2011-03-27
12 November 2010 – 27 March 2011
2011-03-27
2010-11-12
Janus Pannonius  Museum (Pécs, Hungary)
2010-11-12
The Europe of the Eight
Loan-out
1 May 2011 – 15 May 2012
2012-05-15
1 May 2011 – 15 September 2011
2011-09-15
2011-05-01
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, USA)
1 October 2011 – 22 January 2012
2012-01-22
2011-10-01
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris, France)
1 February 2012 – 15 May 2012
2012-05-15
2012-02-01
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2011-05-01
Stein Family Collections
Loan-out
19 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
2014-01-12
19 September 2013 – 12 January 2014
2014-01-12
2013-09-19
Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria)
http://www.albertina.at/en
2013-09-19
Henri Matisse and the Fauves
Loan-out
23 February 2014 – 15 June 2014
2014-06-15
23 February 2014 – 15 June 2014
2014-06-15
2014-02-23
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
2014-02-23
Matisse, la figura. la forza della linea, l'emozione del colore
Loan-out
28 March 2015 – 16 August 2015
2015-08-16
28 March 2015 – 16 August 2015
2015-08-16
2015-03-28
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2015-03-28
Henri Matisse. Cut Out, the final works
Loan-out
20 November 2015 – 1 May 2016
2016-05-01
20 November 2015 – 1 May 2016
2016-05-01
2015-11-20
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2015-11-20
Matisse The Snail
Collection based display
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
20 October 2016 – 29 January 2017
2017-01-29
2016-10-20
Fundacíon Mapfre (Madrid, Spain)
2016-10-20
The Fauves
Loan-out
5 June 2019 – 17 May 2020
2020-05-17
28 September 2019 – 12 January 2020
2020-01-12
2019-09-28
Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy)
2019-06-05
Natalia Goncharova
Loan-out
16 October 2023 – 27 May 2024
2024-05-27
16 October 2023 – 21 January 2024
2024-01-21
2023-10-16
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
25 February 2024 – 27 May 2024
2024-05-27
2024-02-25
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, USA)
http://www.mfah.org
2023-10-16
Matisse and Derain
Loan-out
André Derain
support: 394 × 289 mm
frame: 550 × 471 × 75 mm
Purchased with assistance from the Knapping Fund, the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> and private subscribers 1954
<p>Matisse and Derain painted <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> of each other  while staying at the port of Collioure in the  south of France. Using vivid, apparently  arbitrary, colours, Matisse has captured the  sensation of sunlight striking the sitter's face  and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>casting</span></a> a heavy shadow down one side. He has  also tried to create a dynamic but balanced  relationship between <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/complementary-colours" title="Glossary definition for 'Complementary colours'"><span>complementary colours</span></a>, such  as blue and orange, red and green. Complementary  colours 'complete' each other: they are at their  most intense when placed together. Matisse  adjusted his colours to obtain the maximum  intensity. This non-naturalistic use of colour can  be seen as a radical development of certain  aspects of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionist</span></a> art, and it led the  critics to dub Matisse a '<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/fauvism" title="Glossary definition for 'Fauvism'"><span>fauve</span></a>' (wild beast).</p>
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<p><b>Henri Matisse</b><span> 1869-1954 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-andre-derain-n06241" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06241</span></a> </span><b>André Derain</b><span> 1905 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'HM' b.r. and 'MATISSE' down side of stretcher</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 15 1/2 x 11 3/8 (39.5 x 29)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from the Rees Jeffreys sale (Knapping Fund) with the aid of the NACF, the CAS and private subscribers 1954</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Michael Stein, Paris; Christian Tetzen Lund, Copenhagen; Tetzen Lund sale, Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, 18-19 May 1925, lot 86 as 'Buste d'un Maroquin', 40 x 29cm; bt. in; with Galerie Pierre, Paris, 1927; W. Rees Jeffreys, Wivelsfield Green, Sussex, 1928; Jeffreys sale, Christie's, London, 26 November 1954, lot 113</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Henri-Matisse</i><span>, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, February 1910 (28) as 'Portrait' 1905, lent by M.M.S.; </span><i>Henri Matisse</i><span>, Kunstsalon Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin, July-August 1914 (7); </span><i>Henri Matisse</i><span>, Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, September 1924 (40); </span><i>Les Sources du XXe Siècle</i><span>, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, November 1960-January 1961 (432); </span><i>Matisse 1869-1954</i><span>, Hayward Gallery, London, July-September 1968 (32, repr.); </span><i>The 'Wild Beasts': Fauvism and its Affinities</i><span>, Museum of Modern Art, New York, March-June 1976 (works not numbered, repr. in black and white, and in colour); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June-August 1976 (works not numbered, repr. in black and white, and in colour); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, September-October 1976 (works not numbered, repr. in black and white, and in colour)</span>
<br/><i>Lit: </i><span>Alfred H. Barr, Jr., </span><i>Matisse: his Art and his Public</i><span>
(New York 1951), pp.54-5, 178, 540-1; Mario Luzi and Massimo Carrà, </span><i>L'Opera di Matisse dalla Rivolta 'Fauve' all'Intimismo 1904-1928</i><span> (Milan 1971), No. 45, p.86, repr. p.87 and pl.VI in colour</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
Georges Duthuit, </span><i>Les Fauves</i><span> (Geneva 1949), p.62; John Rothenstein, </span><i>The Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1966), p.256 </span>
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<p><span>A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the painter André Derain (1880-1954), executed at Collioure in the summer of 1905 at the same time as the portrait of Matisse by Derain also in the collection (</span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/T00165" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'T00165');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>T00165</span></a><span>). </span>
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<p><span>Though the portrait of Matisse had always been in the possession of the Matisse family until acquired, there is no definite evidence that this picture ever belonged to Derain. Mme Derain, whose memories of Derain's studio went back to the end of 1907, had no recollection of seeing it there: she believed that he may have exchanged it for some other work by Matisse. 'However that be', she wrote, 'it is certain that this portrait played a role both happy and fortunate in the life of André Derain, for his parents, hitherto very mistrustful towards their son's love for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a>, were favourably impressed by the seriousness and good breeding of Henri Matisse; it is from this moment that they began to gain a little confidence in this unwelcome profession. In fact as a result of the visit to Collioure where André was the guest of Monsieur and Madame Matisse, his parents, if they helped him but little, at least discouraged him less. My husband always spoke with joy of that period of his life and of the stay which the master and his wife obtained for him' (letter of 28 November 1956). A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of Michael and Sarah Stein's apartment in Paris taken early in 1908 already shows this picture hanging on the wall among the other Matisses in their collection. (The photograph is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue </span><i>Four Americans in Paris</i><span>, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970, p.45). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.492-3, reproduced p.492 </span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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adults artist - non-specific artist, painter artist, sculptor arts and entertainment body clothing and personal items colour Derain, André emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities French hat, cap head / face individuals: male man named individuals nationality natural phenomena objects people portraits shadow society work and occupations