Lot 469
  • 469

André Derain

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

Description

  • André Derain
  • Nu à la draperie verte
  • signed Derain (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 91.9 by 73cm., 36 1/4 by 28 3/4 in.

Provenance

Paul Guillaume, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Sale: Galerie Bollag, Zurich, 20th March 1968, lot 18
Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owners

Exhibited

Venice, XVIII International Biennale, 1932, no. 6
Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, Derain, 1959, no. 57, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Michel Kellermann, André Derain. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1996, vol. II, no. 1234, illustrated p. 238

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is an uneven milky varnish preventing the UV light from fully penetrating, however there do not appear to be any signs of retouching visible under UV light. There is an area of stabilised craquelure (approx. 6.cm long) between the woman's proper right arm and torso, another area to the woman's neck and some further fine lines of stable craquelure in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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