About This Artwork

André Derain
French, 1880-1954

Landscape in Provence, c. 1930

Oil on cradled panel
14 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (37.8 x 55 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "a derain"
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.67

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Tableaux Modernes sale, June 16, 1933, “Collection Etienne Vautheret,” pp. 15, 16 (ill.), lot 5, as Paysage en Provence, 1931.

New York, Brummer Gallery, Paintings by André Derain, November 9, 1936–January 2, 1937, cat. 33 or 34 [two Landscape in Provence listed, no dimensions, no images].

Publication History

Print Collector’s Quarterly: Art Prices Current XII (1932-33), p. A301, cat. 4765, as Paysage en Provence.

Sale Catalogue: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Tableaux Modernes sale, June 16, 1933, “Collection Etienne Vautheret,” opp. p. 15 (ill.), lot 5.

Brummer Gallery, Paintings by André Derain, (New York, 1936), cat. 33 or 34 [two Landscape in Provence listed, no dimensions, no images].

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 39, no. 1E11.

Michael Kellermann, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 50 (ill.), fig. 595, as Vue de villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Ownership History

Paul Guillaume, Paris [Kellerman 1996]. Etienne Vautheret, Lyon, by 1933 [Paris 1933]; Sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 16, 1933, Collection Vautheret, lot 5 [Paris 1933]. Galerie Alfred Poyet, Paris by 1938 or 1939 [1975 survey from Theodore Schempp in curatorial file]; sold to Theodore Schempp, Paris, late 1938 or ealy 1939 [1975 survey from Schempp in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, September 23, 1939–1947 [sales receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.