Genevieve Taillade in an Orange Jacket

Derain was associated with the Fauves early in his career, with their love of wild and jarring color, but his passion for the compositions of Cézanne and France's old masters soon led him away from the more radical edge of the art world. His growing commitment to figurative painting made him a prominent representative of the conservative "call to order" in the 1920s, the period when he painted this portrait of his niece and was critically acclaimed for the "Frenchness" of his work.