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Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

The Houses of Parliament from Westminster Bridge

1906

André Derain

(French, 1880–1954)
France, 20th century
oil on canvas
Framed: 106 x 124.5 x 10 cm (41 3/4 x 49 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 73.6 x 92 cm (29 x 36 1/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1983.67
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde

Did You Know?

André Derain painted this view of parliament over a century ago, but you can still stand on Westminster Bridge and see the same vista.

Description

This painting is from a series of 30 London views painted by André Derain between 1906 and 1907. It exemplifies the artist’s Fauve style—characterized by intense, vivid color and energetic brushwork— that Derain developed with his friend Henri Matisse in the summer of 1905 while visiting Collioure, a fishing village in the South of France. Nicknamed the Fauves (“wild beasts”) by contemporary critics, the artists aimed for the liberation of color from reality, using it instead for compositional and expressive purposes.
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    Claude Monet and Modernist London. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg, FL (organizer) (January 16-April 17, 2005).
    Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (1/16/2005 - 4/17/2005): "Claude Monet and Modernist London" ex. cat. no. 7 , p. 62.
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  • {{cite web|title=The Houses of Parliament from Westminster Bridge|url=false|author=André Derain|year=1906|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1983.67