1. 3 May


    The Cup of Tea (1935). Andre Derain (1880-1954). French Fauvist painter and sculptor. Naïve Art (Primitivism). Oil on canvas. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France   After WW I, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism then ascendant. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an upholder of tradition. 

    The Cup of Tea (1935). Andre Derain (1880-1954). French Fauvist painter and sculptor. Naïve Art (Primitivism). Oil on canvas. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France  

    After WW I, Derain won new acclaim as a leader of the renewed classicism then ascendant. With the wildness of his Fauve years far behind, he was admired as an upholder of tradition.