Le Repos

Le Repos (Rest) was painted in 1906, the year after the Salon d'Automne exhibition that gave Fauvism its name. Three nude figures rest in a pink, blue, and black landscape — a reclining figure at upper left, a standing figure at center, and a seated figure with her back to the viewer in the foreground. A fourth figure, more sketchily rendered, stands at right against bare paper. The drawing is bold and graphic, almost woodcut-like, with thick black contours and large flat areas of coral pink, deep blue, and teal-green. The water in the background is rendered in choppy black hatching against blue. Derain's signature is in the lower right, with the title "repos" written beside it.