Reclining Nude
Type:Painting
Year:Circa 1925
Size:15.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Frame size: 22 x 25 inches Includes a Certificate of Authenticity from Michel Kellermann, Expert Pres Les Douanes Francaises.
Andre Derain ART FOR SALE
1880 Chatou, France - 1954 Garches (Seine-et-Oise), France. Known for: Paintings, sculpture-fauve and pointillism.
Andre Derain was born in 1880 at Chatou, which was then a kind of artists' colony at the gates of Paris. His father was a successful patissier (pastry chef) and a town councillor and Derain was given... Read full biography
Andre Derain was born in 1880 at Chatou, which was then a kind of artists' colony at the gates of Paris. His father was a successful patissier (pastry chef) and a town councillor and Derain was given a middle-class education. By the time he was forty, he was one of the most successful painters in... Read full biography
Andre Derain was born in 1880 at Chatou, which was then a kind of artists' colony at the gates of Paris. His father was a successful patissier (pastry chef) and a town councillor and Derain was given a middle-class education. By the time he was forty, he was one of the most successful painters in Paris. But by the end of World War II, Derain's name usually came up only to be dismissed with a shrug. One of the original "wild beasts" (Fauves), he has been difficult to appraise; but at its best,... Read full biography
Andre Derain was born in 1880 at Chatou, which was then a kind of artists' colony at the gates of Paris. His father was a successful patissier (pastry chef) and a town councillor and Derain was given a middle-class education. By the time he was forty, he was one of the most successful painters in Paris. But by the end of World War II, Derain's name usually came up only to be dismissed with a shrug. One of the original "wild beasts" (Fauves), he has been difficult to appraise; but at its best, his work has also been almost impossible not to like. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. The trauma of his years in the trenches had turned him toward what is timeless. Derain's father was... Read full biography
Andre Derain was born in 1880 at Chatou, which was then a kind of artists' colony at the gates of Paris. His father was a successful patissier (pastry chef) and a town councillor and Derain was given a middle-class education. By the time he was forty, he was one of the most successful painters in Paris. But by the end of World War II, Derain's name usually came up only to be dismissed with a shrug. One of the original "wild beasts" (Fauves), he has been difficult to appraise; but at its best, his work has also been almost impossible not to like. Only seemingly did Derain belong with his contemporaries; essentially he was a traditionalist. The trauma of his years in the trenches had turned him toward what is timeless. Derain's father was prosperous enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But Andre was already painting, and his... Read full biography
Andre Derain - Art for Sale (2 available)
"Tete de Jeune Fille (Head of a Young Girl)"
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1930
Size:18.50" x 15.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Derain captures an interesting character study in this portrait of a young brunette that he created circa 1930. Signed lower right, framed. Included in the Catalogue raisonne by Michel Kellermann, Paris. Certificate of authenticity by Michel Kellermann provided.