André Derain

In the summer of 1905 Matisse and the younger André Derain worked side by side in Collioure, a fishing town near the Spanish border, pushing colour further than either had dared. They painted portraits of each other. Here Derain's sunlit face is built from colours with little to do with real skin, a stroke of orange for the light, a heavy shadow of blue and green down one side. That autumn several such pictures hung at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, where a startled critic called the painters fauves, wild beasts, and the name stuck to the whole loose movement. Derain was 25 that summer. He painted his own portrait of Matisse at the same time, and the two canvases have ended up in the same collection.