LANDSCAPE IN COLOR

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A gifted French painter, André Derain worked with Henri Matisse at a key moment during a transitional period of modern art history. Together, Derain and Matisse would explore cutting-edge painting techniques and produce some of the world’s most transformative colorful landscape paintings.

Derain used short, choppy brushstrokes that looked like tiny grenades of color seeming to burst off the canvas like wild fireworks exploding in the sky. This nuanced style of painting known as “Fauvism” was ...

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