Lot 21
  • 21

André Derain

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • André Derain
  • Buste de femme assise aux seins nus
  • Signed a. Derain (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 3/4 by 21 1/4 in.
  • 73 by 54 cm
  • Painted circa 1924.

Provenance

Sale: Deauville, Tableaux modernes provenant de la villa Sauge Pourpée, December 8, 1928, lot 42
Sale: Palais Galliéra, Paris, December 4, 1972, lot 62, illustrated
Private collection, Great Britain
Edouardo Mollard, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, London, December 7, 1983, lot 215
Seldon Ring, Los Angeles
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 1997, lot 498A
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Michel Kellerman, André Derain: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1915-1934, vol. II, Paris, 1996, no. 953, illustrated p. 162

Condition

Oil on unlined canvas. The canvas is slightly slack on the stretcher. The picture surface is in generally good aside from a very fine, stable web of craquelure. Under UV light, there are a few very small scattered losses in the background in the lower left. In overall excellent condition.
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