Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960

Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960

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PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM

André Derain

Paysage de Provence

Lot Closed

March 5, 03:07 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

André Derain

1880 - 1954


Paysage de Provence

signed Derain (lower right)

oil on canvas

23 ¾ by 29 in.

60.3 by 73.7 cm.

Executed circa 1925.

Please note the condition report for this lot has been updated.

Paul Guillaume, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Valentine Gallery (Valentine Dudensing and Pierre Matisse), New York (probably acquired from the above in 1926)

Stephen C. Clark, New York (acquired from the above in 1927)

Acquired as an anonymous gift from the above in 1937 by the present owner

“List of Paintings Given by a Trustee,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, vol. 8, no. 4, 1938, p. 7

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1942, no. 161, p. 36

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1948, no. 195

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958

Michel Kellerman, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris 1996, no. 524, p. 30, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture, 1930, no. 28

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Work of André Derain, 1939

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, 1940-41

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions: A Gift of Paintings from a Trustee, 1941

Iowa City, University of Iowa; Nashville, Vanderbilt University; Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College; Massachusetts, Amherst College; Palm Beach, Florida, Society of the Four Arts; Massachusetts, Wellesley College; Tallahassee, Florida State University; Ithaca, New York, College of Home Economics; Saint Paul, Minnesota State Fair, Thirty European and American Paintings, 1943-44, no. 8

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, André Derain in the Museum Collection, 1963

South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Landscape in Art: Its Origin and Development, 1967

During the 1920s, Derain embarked on an intense study of landscapes, depicted in a spare yet lyrical style that paid homage to the Italian so-called primitives, traditional French landscape painters and Flemish Renaissance masters. His output from this period was increasingly more muted in palette, striking a conscious balance between Fauve vibrancy and a more modest reference to naturalism, albeit stylized in a way that was to become uniquely Derain’s own from this period onward.