Lot 167
  • 167

André Derain

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • André Derain
  • Nature morte au chapeau bleu
  • Signed A. Derain (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 3/8 by 35 7/8 in.
  • 72 by 91.1 cm

Provenance

Alice Derain (the artist's wife)
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf, by 1930
Galerie Bonjean (Jacques Bonjean & Christian Dior), Paris, by 1930
René Gimpel, Paris (acquired from the above on behalf of Blake-More Godwin, Director of the Toledo Museum, in 1931)
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (acquired from the above in 1931)
Mr. & Mrs. Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired from the above, by exchange, in 1954) 
Gift from the above in 1967

Exhibited

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art & Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, 1938, no. 29, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture, 1968

Literature

Blake-More Godwin, The Toledo Museum of Art, Catalogue of European Paintings, 1939, illustrated p. 261

Condition

Good condition. Canvas is lined. Under UV light, two strokes of inpainting just below the center of the work in the grey pigment, as well as a stroke of inpainting to the right of the hat; two nailhead size spots of inpainting in the sky just below the top edge left of center. Scattered spots of inpainting in the bottom right corner, along the right edge, and in the top left corner to address frame abrasion.
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