Details
ANDRÉ DERAIN (1880-1954)
La femme assise (The seated woman)
inscribed and numbered 'ATELIER ANDRE DERAIN 000' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
height: 678 in. (17.4 cm.)
Conceived in terracotta between 1938 and 1954 and cast in bronze between the late 1950s and the early 1960s; this example cast in an edition of 15 numbered 1/11 to 11/11 and 0 to 0000
Provenance
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, and thence by descent.
Literature
P. Cailler, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté de André Derain, première partie - l'œuvre édité, Geneva, 1965, no. 7, n.p. (terracotta version illustrated).
FURTHER DETAILS
The Comité André Derain has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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