André Derain - 9 Woodcuts (1919-1925)

Forgotten Prints #6: Flowers & Landscapes

André Derain (1880-1954) was born just outside Paris, and is primarily known as a painter. Derain was close with Matisse, and together they were a part of the Fauvist movement, known for its bold use of colour and heavy brush-strokes. Derain’s woodcuts—published as book-illustrations and in underground arts and poetry magazines magazines—though having a far more minimal pallet, exhibit a similar boldness in figuration and “heavy” line-work.

1-6: illustrations for René Dalize’s Ballade du Pauvre Macchabée Mal Enterre (1919); 7-8: from the magazines Broom (1922; edited by Harold Loeb and Alfred Kreymborg) and The Chapbook (1925; ed. Harold Monro).

  
              For André Derain
                by Dick Whyte

       we grow flowers
       in the patterns
       of the stars,

       arrange the rocks
       to cast their shadows rhythmically—

       soon our bones
       and blood made into
       earthen broth,

       & all that moves
       participates eventually
  

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