“What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own.”

—  André Derain

Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, p. 406

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French painter and engraver 1880–1954

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