Vintage 1976 Derain French Gallery Exhibition Poster

A 1979 Galerie Schmit exhibition poster featuring the work of André Derain. 

19" x 26 1/4"

*small tear at the bottom of the poster

André Derain (1880-1954) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, and designer who was one of the principal Fauvists.

Derain studied painting in Paris at the Académie Carriere. He developed his early style with Vlaminck and Matisse, who were classmates at the Académie Carriere. Together with these two painters, Derain was one of the major exponents of Fauvism from 1905 to 1908. Like the other artists who worked in this style, he painted landscapes and figure studies in brilliant, sometimes pure colors and used broken brushstrokes and impulsive lines to define his spontaneous compositions.