Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Paysage de neige à Chatou
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
André Derain
1880 - 1954
Paysage de neige à Chatou
signed a. Derain (lower left)
oil on board laid down on canvas
23 ⅞ by 31 ¾ in. 60.5 by 80.8 cm.
Executed circa 1904-05.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist circa 1905)
Comte François Doria, Paris (acquired from the above on 27 July 1912)
Comte Armand Doria, Paris (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1964)
Private Collection
Wildenstein & Co., New York
Acquired from the above on 5 January 2010 by the present owner
“Entrietien avec la comte Doria,” Connaissance des Arts, no. 2, 15 April 1952, p. 11, illustrated (titled Paysage de neige)
Denys Sutton, André Derain, London, 1959, no. 8, p. 146; pl. 8, illustrated (titled Snowscape at Chatou and dated circa 1904)
Joseph-Émile Muller, Le Fauvisme, Paris, 1967, no. 63, p. 76, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Fauve Landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque and Their Circle, 1904-1908, 1990-91, pl. 137, p. 130, illustrated
Michel Kellerman, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1992, no. 42, p. 26, illustrated in color; p. 27, illustrated; p. LXXXIII, illustrated in a photograph of the 1974 Galerie Schmit exhibition
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Derain, 1954-55 (not included in the catalogue)
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Terceira [III] Biennale, 1955, no. 2
London, Wildenstein, André Derain 1880-1954, 1957, no. 4, p. 4; p. 29, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de collections privées, de Bonnard à de Staël, 1960, no. 20, n.p.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Les Fauves, 1962, no. 22
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Derain, 1964, no. 12, n.p.; pl. 12, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Derain (1880-1954), 1976, no. 6, p. 13, illustrated in color
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum (on extended loan)