Derain, Sketch for The Old Bridge at Cagnes, 1910 - Thinking at Jill Rapaport Book

André Derain, Sketch for The Old Bridge at Cagnes
graphite and watercolour on paper, 1910
Tate Gallery
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I'm again thinking at the bunched palaces against a cloudy gray sky imagined by Jill Rapaport in one of her stories (Duchamp et Moi and Other Stories/Porte Lilas, pag.43)


This drawing dates from a period in which Derain had moved away from the rich coloring of Fauvism. The angled modulation of the planes of the bridge and surrounding buildings, and the way in which this is worked across the whole surface of the drawing. reflect his new engagement with the example of Cézanne, whose work was very much in the public eye following his death in 1906. His work of this period encouraged some to see Derain, briefly, as a leading Cubist rather than recognizing his interest in Cézanne.

(Tate Gallery)

(André Derain)

(Jill Rapaport)