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Charing Cross Bridge (1905-1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Charing Cross Bridge 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 100.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this cityscape Derain rendered the customary gray of the London sky with dramatic color. In the summer of 1905 he…

Montagnes à Collioure (1905)

Derain, André (1880-1954 Montagnes à Collioure (Mountains at Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 100.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Trees and mountains nearly fill this composition and are painted with long, mostly parallel brushstrokes in this horizontal landscape.…

La route vers Castel Gandolfo (c.1921)

Derain, André (1880-1954) La route vers Castel Gandolfo (Road to Castel Gandolfo) c.1921 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 50.8 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1921 Derain lived for a time at Castel Gandolfo, a picturesque spot south-east of Rome that…

Port en Provence, Martigues (1913)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Port en Provence, Martigues (Martigues, Harbor in Provence) 1913 Oil on canvas, 141 x 90 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Martigues is a port on the Mediterranean coast of south-eastern France, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. It was…

The Palace of Westminster (1906-1907)

Derain, André (1880-1954) The Palace of Westminster 1906–1907 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 99.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1905 and 1906, Derain traveled to London at the suggestion of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint the…

Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville) 1864 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 104.14 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This is one of Eugène Boudin‘s many paintings of the Normandy…