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He dabbled with Fauvism, Austrian Expressionism and Post-Impressionism, but like so many who experiment, these tastes gave way to the hard stuff: Abstract Expressionism and Francis Bacon-inspired figuration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Fauvism, which lasted from about 1904 to 1908, is the first and probably the shortest of Modernism’s art movements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Fauvism would become the first major avant-garde movement of the 20th century.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
An air of catch-up marks his derivations, from such styles as Henri Matisse’s Fauvism and Kandinsky’s proto-abstraction.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
And yet the ballet was intensely modern; always you were aware that Derain had been right through the movement—through Fauvism, Negroism, Cubism.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
