Lot 94
  • 94

André Derain

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • André Derain
  • Tête de Jeune Femme
  • Signed a. derain (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 14 by 10 3/4 in.
  • 35.6 by 27.3 cm.
  • Painted circa 1920.

Provenance

Paul Guillaime, Paris
Charlotte Jordan, Rhode Island (acquired from the above in 1925)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Cambridge, MA, Fogg Museum of Art, on loan, 1939

Literature

Michel Kellermann, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1996, no. 828, illustrated p. 125

Condition

This work is unlined and the canvas is in good condition. The picture surface is in generally good condition aside from a small bump in the lower left corner and a discolored repaint in the lower right corner. Under UV, there is a small amopunt of inpainting along the upper edge.
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