Galerie Paul Prouté

André Derain won drawing prizes as early as secondary school. When he entered the Camillo Academy, where Carrière was a corrector, he rubbed shoulders with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault. Throughout his career, he remained particularly close to Matisse, as well as to Vlaminck, whom he met in 1900. Throughout his life, Derain showed a variety of styles: a precursor of Fauvism, he returned to a more traditional style from 1911 onwards. In addition, he did not limit his artistic production to painting: he began a career as a ballet and theatre stage designer, engraver and sculptor. The artist attached particular importance to drawing, which for him had a value in its own right. Every day, he practised renewing the recurring themes in his work, including animal representations.