Andre Derain, a major French painter, sculptor and engraver, one of the founders of “Fauvism”, was born in Chatou near Paris. Here he studied painting with a local artist, later attended the Career Academy in Paris, where he met A. Matisse. From 1900 Deren, together with M. Vlaminck, worked on the landscapes that they wrote in the vicinity of Chatou. The closeness of the creative aspirations of the artists “Shatu School” to “Fauves” led them to unification in 1905 and a joint exhibition in the Autumn Salon.
Later, Derain became friends with P. Picasso. In the 1910s, the artist was heavily influenced by P. Cezanne’s creativity and the ideas of cubism. In 1914, Derain was drafted into the army and participated in military operations. At the end of the war, he worked in the theater, from 1921 he designed the plays of S. Diaghilev’s ballet company. The artist devoted much time to copying the works of old masters. Discovered as a result of this work, pictorial techniques Deren used in his work, which earned him the reputation of a classicist.
The painting “drying of sails” was acquired in 1907 by IA Morozov in the gallery of A. Vollard in Paris. This work refers to the “fauvish landscapes” of Derain with an intense color characteristic for them, in the radiance of which the contours of the natural forms seem to be blurred. Other famous works: “Saturday Day”. 1911-1914. The Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin, Moscow; “Montreuil-sur-Mer. Harbor”. 1910. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
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