About This Artwork

André Derain
French, 1880-1954

Ballet Dancer, late 1920s

Oil on canvas
17 15/16 x 14 9/16 in. (45.6 x 37 cm)
Signed, l. r. "a derain"
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.66

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 125.


Grung, Sandra, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1971), p. 30.

Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 39, cat. 1E10.

Kellerman, Michael, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 190 (ill.), cat. 1066, as Danseuse en tutu, 1926–1927.

Ownership History

Theodore Schempp, Paris and New York, acquired from an unnamed gallery, c. 1941–July 23, 1942 [catalogue data sheet of May 22, 1975 filled out by Schempp in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, July 23, 1942–1947 [receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.