[2] In 1898, while studying to be an engineer at the Académie Camillo,[3] he attended painting classes under Eugène Carrière, and there met Matisse. [1], Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, just outside Paris.

At about this time Derain's work began overtly reflecting his study of the Old Masters. In 1907 art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler purchased Derain's entire studio, granting Derain financial stability. [15], A year before his death, he contracted an eye infection from which he never fully recovered.

Nineteenth-century London saw a huge growth in population (from 1 million in 1800 to over 6 million a century later) as mechanical industry, especially the building of railways, took hold. [17], Self-portrait in studio, c.1903, oil on canvas, 42.2 × 34.6 cm, National Gallery of Australia, Pinède à Cassis (Landscape), 1907, oil on canvas, 54 × 65 cm, Musée Cantini, Marseille, André Derain, 1907, Paysage à Cassis, oil on canvas, 54 × 64 cm, Musée d'art moderne de Troyes, Landscape in Provence (Paysage de Provence), c. 1908, oil on canvas, 32.2 × 40.6 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, View of Cagnes, 1910, oil on canvas, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, La Table (The Table), 1911, oil on canvas, 96.5 × 131.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Last Supper, 1911, oil on canvas, 227.3 × 288.3 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Window on the Park (La Fenêtre sur le parc), 1912, oil on canvas, 130.8 × 89.5 cm, Museum of Modern Art, Nature morte (Still Life), 1912, oil on canvas, 100.5 × 118 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Vollard bought Derain’s London series in its entirety, 30 paintings in total of which 29 are known today, but did not exhibit them as a group. Sculpture: Nu debout (Standing Woman), 1907.

London Bridge is one of about 30 paintings Derain produced over his two-month stay, all depicting activity on or around the Thames. Derain wrote that he had difficulty with the subject, "it was absurd to paint the blazing sun in the world capital of fog," yet he took advantage of this opportunity to "explore the notion of color as an independent entity and paint a landscape which no longer represents anything."

"International Painting and Sculpture - Le Cavalier au cheval blanc", André Derain at the National Gallery of Art, André Derain, Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide, Artcyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=André_Derain&oldid=979113464, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with KULTURNAV identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Whereas earlier artists such as Monet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler had painted London through the haze of its rising blue-grey mist and smog, Derain offers us exhilaratingly bright, multicoloured views of the city, showered in golden light or else empathically constructed through bold contrasts of colour. Loggy and Alex’s friendship in Miami’s redeveloping Liberty Square is threatened when Loggy learns that Alex is being relocated to another community.

With an English chic, somewhat striking. He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. When the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard dispatched Derain to London in March 1906 the young artist had much to live up to. It’s not surprising that Derain’s art dealer was interested in views of London.

No matter how far we moved away from things, it was never far enough. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an upholder of tradition. [9] Derain's presence in Germany was used effectively by Nazi propaganda, and after the Liberation he was branded a collaborator and ostracized by many former supporters. It was the era of photography. In 1900, he met and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminckand toge… By displaying 12 of the major paintings from the series, André Derain: The London Paintings aimed to reassess his remarkable achievement. Derain set up his easel outdoors and went to work. .

Derain accepted an invitation to make an official visit to Germany in 1941, and traveled with other French artists to Berlin to attend a Nazi exhibition of an officially endorsed artist, Arno Breker. In 1905, French painter André Derain was commissioned by his art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint views of London.

Some of his views of the Thames use the Pointillist technique of multiple dots, although by this time, because the dots have become much larger, it is rather more simply the separation of colours called Divisionism and it is peculiarly effective in conveying the fragmentation of colour in moving water in sunlight."[7].