In 1910 Derain exhibited works at the Neue Kunstlervereinigung in Munich (New Artists Association), an association founded by Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), and in 1912 he took part in the
Secessionist Der Blaue Reiter group exhibition and, in 1913, at the Armory Show in New York, along with the Russian Alexei von Jawlensky (1864 - 1941), the Germans Franz Marc (1880 - 1916), August Macke (1887 - 1914), Gabriele Munter (1887 - 1914), Albert Bloch (1881 - 1961) and the American
painter Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956).