André Derain (1880-1954, Fig. 1) was born in Chatou, a small town in the Île-de-France region outside of Paris (Diehl 8; Lee, 1990, 11-13). His father, a successful pâtissier and municipal councilor, was a small bourgeois who hoped to increase his son’s success (Werner 200). Despite Derain’s early interest in an artistic career, his father pressured him to become an officer or an engineer (Sutton 6; Lee 11).
