Bateaux à Collioure by André Derain sold for £5,865,250 ($9,419,592) at London's Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale on February 9, 2011. Painted in 1905, this work is from a pivotal, early moment of the Fauve movement. Executed in Collioure where the artist was painting alongside his great champion Henri Matisse, it is an exceptionally vibrant work that had last been seen in public in 1965. (RT: 2:26)
11 February 2011