Lot 103
  • 103

André Derain

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • André Derain
  • Fôret aux Lecques
  • Signed Derain (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4 by 36 1/4 in.
  • 73 by 92 cm

Provenance

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Galerie Schmit, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1988

Exhibited

Tokyo, Takashimaya Art Gallery; Osaka, Takashimaya Art Gallery; Kyoto, Takashimaya Art Gallery; Nagoya, Nagoya City Museum, André Derain, 1981, no. 18, illustrated in the catalogue
Nantes, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, André Derain, 1987, no. 4, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Michel Kellermann, André Derain, vol. II, Paris, 1996, no. 484, catalogued and illustrated p. 18, illustrated in color p. 13

Condition

Canvas is lined. Under UV light: scattered spots of inpainting at top of center tree and at upper corners, as well as a stroke to the right of the sappling at lower center and a few strokes at lower left corner. Otherwise fine, work is in good condition.
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