Forest at Martigues

c. 1908/09

André Derain
French, 1880–1954

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: André Derain
Title: Forest at Martigues
Origin: France
Date: 1908–1909
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: No signature
Dimensions: 32 × 39 1/2 in. (81.3 × 100.3 cm)
Credit Line: Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1931.506
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Grafton Galleries, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition exh. cat. (London: Grafton Galleries, 1912), cat. 12, as La Forêt.
Armory of the 69th Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show) exh. cat. (New York, 1913), cat. 343, as La forêt a Martigues [sic].
Art Institute of Chicago, International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show) exh. cat. (Chicago, 1913), cat. 94, as The forest at Martignes [sic].
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, Cubists and Post-Impressionists (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1914), p. 69, opp. p. 154 (ill.).
Arts Club, A Selected Group of American and French Paintings exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1921), cat. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the late Arthur Jerome Eddy exh. cat. (Art Institute, 1922), n.p., cat. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture exh. cat. (Art Institute, 1931), cat. 3, pl. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections exh. cat. (Art Institute, 1933), p. 78, cat. 682.
Vaughan, Malcolm, Derain (New York: Hyperion Press, 1941), p. 49.
Siple, Walter H., Pictures for Peace exh. cat. (Cincinnati Museum of Art, 1944), n.p., cat. 6 (ill.).
Werner, Alfred, “The Tragedy of André Derain,” Arts XXXII (January 1958), pp. 22–25 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), pp. 124–5.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1913 Armory Show: 50th anniversary exhibition, 1963 (Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963), pp. 80 (ill.), 188, cat. 343.
Kresge Art Center Gallery, The Turn of the Century (East Lansing, Mich.: Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, 1964) n.p. (cat. 31, ill.), as Forest at Martiques, 1908 or 1909.
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris–New York exh. cat. (Musée national d’art moderne, centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1977), pp. 279 (ill), 284 (ill.), 676, as La forêt à Martigues.
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, New York: Summary Catalogue (Musée national d’art moderne, centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1977), p. 2, as La forêt à Martigues.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 38, cat. 1E4.
Parke-Taylor, Michael, Andre Derain in North American Collections exh. cat. (Saskatchewan: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1982), p. 19 (ill.).
Brown, Milton W., The Story of the Armory Show (Joseph H. Hirschhorn Foundation, 1988), p. 237, as La Forêt à Martigues.
Michael Kellermann, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 92 (ill.), cat. 148, as La forêt à Martigues, 1908.
Koella, Rudolf, André Derain exh. cat. (IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2003), p. 115 (ill.), as La forêt à Martigues, The Forest at Martigues.
Monery, Jean-Paul, and Claire Ghilione, André Derain: paysages du midi, exh. cat. (L’Annonciade Musée de Saint-Tropez, 2003), pp. 34, 39 (ill.), p. 84 (ill.), cat. 13, as La Forêt à Martigues, 1908.
Poli, Francesco, and Alberto Fiz, André Derain: La forma classica exh. cat. (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2003), p. 38 (ill.), as La foret à Martigues.
Baumann, Felix A., Walter Feilchenfeldt, and Hubertus Gassner, eds., Cézanne and the Dawn of Modern Art exh. cat. (Osrfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004), pp. 122, 127 (ill.)., 234.
Cogeval, Guy, and Marie-Paule Vial, eds., Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920) exh. cat. (Montreal: Snoeck Publishers, 2005), pp. 210 (ill.), 211, 235 (ill.), 251.

London, Grafton Galleries, Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition, October 5–December 31, 1912, cat. 12, as La Forêt.
New York, Armory of the 69th Infantry, International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show), February 17–March 15, 1913, cat. 343, as La forêt a Martigues [sic]; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, March 24–April 16, 1913, cat. 94, as The forest at Martignes [sic].
Chicago, Arts Club, A Selected Group of American and French Paintings, November 21–December 12, 1921, cat. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of the late Arthur Jerome Eddy, September 19–October 22, 1922, n.p., cat. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Arthur Jerome Eddy Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, December 22, 1931–January 17, 1932, pp. 6, 10, 12, 13 (ill.), cat. 3.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 78, cat. 682.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Pictures for Peace, March 18–April 16, 1944, n.p., cat. 6 (ill.).
University of Chicago, Administration Building, 1948–1949.
University of Chicago, February 21–March 15, 1957.
Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, February 17–March 31, 1963, pp. 80 (ill.), 188, cat. 343; traveled to New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, April 6–28, 1963.
East Lansing, Mich., Kresge Art Center Gallery at Michigan State University, The Turn of the Century, April 10–May 4, 1964, n.p. (cat. 31, ill.), as Forest at Martiques, 1908 or 1909.
Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris–New York, June 1–September 19, 1977, pp. 279 (ill), 284 (ill.), 676, as La forêt à Martigues.
Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne Andre Derain: Le peintre du “trouble moderne,” November 18, 1994–March 19, 1995; traveled to Madrid, Fundacion Colleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza, April 5–July 23, 1995.
L’Annonciade Musée de Saint-Tropez, André Derain: paysages du midi, June 15–October 6, 2003, pp. 34, 39 (ill.), p. 84 (ill.), cat. 13, as La Forêt à Martigues, 1908.
Essen, Museum Folkwang, Cezanne and the Dawn of Modern Art, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, pp. 122, 127 (ill.)., 234.
Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Right Under the Sun: Landscape in Provence from Classicism to Modernism (1750–1920), May 18–August 21, 2005, pp. 210 (ill.), 211, 235 (ill.), 251; traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September 22, 2005–January 8, 2006.
New York, Historical Society, The Armory Show at 100, October 11, 2013-February 23, 2014.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, probably acquired directly from the artist, by 1912 [London 1912; letter from Galerie Louise Leiris, Sept. 4, 1976, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920), Chicago, Mar. 2, 1913 [Brown 1988]; by descent to his wife Lucy O. Eddy (1863-1931) and son Jerome O. Eddy (1891-1951), Chicago, 1920; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1931.

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