Fountain

Modern Art

early 1920s

André Derain
French, 1880–1954

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Department: Modern Art

Artist: André Derain
Title: Fountain
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1920–1925
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: Derain
Dimensions: 27.6 × 34.9 cm (10 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1926.350
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 34, 35 (ill.), 57.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, no. 6 (December 1928), p. 233, as Le Bassin.
Sherwood, Walter J., “The Famous Birch Bartlett collection,” The Chicago Visitor (October, 1932), p. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Art Institute, 1946), pp. 8, 9 (ill.), 54, as The Fountain (Le Bassin).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 125.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 39, cat. 1E8.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 222, 231 (ill.), no. 2.
Kellermann, Michael, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 132 (ill.), cat. 852, as Baigneuses a la fontaine, about 1920–1921.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 78, cat. 683.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, p. 52, cat. 341.

Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, by May 1926 [shipping receipt, copy in curatorial file]. Frederick Clay Bartlett, Chicago, by May 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

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