Lot 12
  • 12

André Derain

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • André Derain
  • Assiette de fruits
  • Signed Derain (lower right)
  • Oil on paper laid down on canvas
  • 10 3/4 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 27.3 by 46 cm
  • Painted circa 1944-45.

Provenance

Galerie du Chêne SA, Lausanne
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 12, 1996, lot 60

Literature

Michel Kellerman, André Derain: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. III, Paris, 1999, no. 1562, illustrated p. 59

Condition

Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Surface in generally good condition. Under UV light; one possible area of inpainting faintly visible at lower center. Thick green varnish visible.
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