Andre Derain (1880-1954), like his close colleagues Matisse and Picasso, is among the artists who carried out the most uncompromising reinvention of the art of painting during the first half of the 20th century. Delegated to the back stalls of art history for decades, Derain's life's work is now unfurled in its full glory. In the spring of 2007, Statens Museum for Kunst will be one of the first museums in the world to present a large retrospective exhibition about this controversial and epoch-making master painter who fell out of favour in his own time. In addition to a number of Derain's important works from the museum's own collection, museums such as the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York have contributed significant loans to the exhibition, which shows a total of 85 works. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com