Paysage du midi-les digues au crépuscule signed 'a.Derain' (lower right) oil on canvas 43.5 x 98cm (17 1/8 x 38 9/16in). Painted circa 1938
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Footnotes
PROVENANCE Madame Alice Derain, Chambourcy. Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 3 December 1975, lot 71. Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner. Thence by descent to the present owner.
EXHIBITION New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1940.
LITERATURE M. Kellermann, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'uvre peint, 1935-1954, Paris, 1992, Vol.III, no.1376 (illustrated p.18).
This painting was dramatically cut down after the exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, 1940.