Deux danseuses signed 'a derain' (lower right) oil on canvas 38 x 49cm (14 15/16 x 19 5/16in). Painted circa 1926-1927
Sold for
£13,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
PROVENANCE Paul Guillaume, Paris. Mme. Jean Walter, Paris. Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 28 June 1982, lot 31. Purchased from the above by the present owner.
EXHIBITED Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, André Derain, May 1929. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Danse et Divertissements, 1948-1949, no.88. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, André Derain, December 1954-January 1955, no.65. Toronto, The Marlborough-Godard Gallery, no.5, n.d.
LITERATURE G. Hilaire, Derain, Geneva, 1959, no.152, p.197 (illustrated, as 1928). M. Kellerman, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tome II, 1915-1934, Paris, 1996, no.1057, p.188 (illustrated).
This work is sold with a photo-certificate of authenticity from Monsieur Michel Kellerman dated, Paris le 11 Décembre 1980.