André Derain - Bateaux à Collioure 1905
Bateaux à Collioure 1905
38x46cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 15.1 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 28 February 2018
Seller: Private Collection, Switzerland
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Sotheby’s:
When Derain arrived in Collioure, Matisse was working in the manner of Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross, using dashes of isolated colour in the ‘pointillist’ technique which was pioneered by Georges Seurat in the 1880s. Derain too fell under this influence, but like Matisse, adapted the Neo-Impressionist style to convey a strong sense of emotion within a radiant spectrum of contrasting colours.