Henri Matisse (1905)

Derain, André (1880-1954)

Henri Matisse
1905
Oil on canvas, 46 x 34.9 cm
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A portrait of the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954), executed at Collioure in the summer of 1905 at the same period as the portrait of Derain by Matisse acquired in 1954 (N06241). During this visit Derain also painted a small picture of Matisse seated barefooted at a table on the beach, which is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Matisse first met Derain in 1900, and in the autumn of 1904, when Derain had just returned from his military service, helped to persuade his parents not to make him give up his career as a painter. In the spring of 1905 Derain joined the Matisses when they went south to Collioure: it was there that the two artists painted their first pure and characteristic Fauve pictures.

This picture may have been the one exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in October-November 1905 (436) as ‘Portrait’. (Tate)

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Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)
André Derain
1905
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See also:

• Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)