Andre Derain (1880-1954)
Property from The Museum of Modern Art, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Andre Derain (1880-1954)

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Details
Andre Derain (1880-1954)
Nu assis
signed 'Derain' (lower left)
oil on board
29 7/8 x 21 ¼ in. (76 x 54 cm.)
Painted circa 1921
Provenance
Dr. Jacques Soubies, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1928, lot 37.
A. Conger Goodyear, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1940.
Literature
P. Bellew, ed., "Recent Acquisitions by the Museum of Modern Art," Art in Australia, vol. IV, no. 3, September 1941. pp. 26 and 28 (illustrated, p. 29).
M. Kellerman, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1996, vol. II, p. 135, no. 867 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions: European Paintings, June-July 1941.
Wellesley College; Durham, Duke University and Williamstown, Williams College, Twentieth-Century Paintings, November 1941-May 1942.
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Art Gallery; Austin, University of Texas; Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts; Winter Park, Florida, Rollins College; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University; Quincy, Illinois, Quincy Art Club; Jacksonville, Illinois, MacMurray College and Frederick, Maryland, Hood College, European and American Paintings, October 1942-May 1943.
Allentown Art Museum; Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum; Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County; Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum; Austin, University of Texas; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum; Boise Art Association and Tucson Art Center, André Derain, February 1962-February 1963.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, André Derain in the Museum Collection, June-September 1963.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in a Changing World, 1884-1964, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, May 1964-April 1966 and July 1966-March 1967.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Collected by A. Conger Goodyear, April-June 1966, p. 5, no. 9 (titled Torso).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art of the Twenties, November 1979-January 1980.

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