Sitting nude
Canvas 31 x 28 cm.
Signed lower right: Derain
Geschilderd omstreeks 1924
Derain is one of the most important fauvistic painters, later he tried to combine in his paintings all the new findings in art such as the impressionism of van Gogh and Gauguin and the style of his friends Matisse and de Vlaminck.
He was strongly interested in the old italian school of the14th century. From this moment on in 1920 he changed totally to the realistic style. He found his inspiration in nature and fulfilled this by secure lines and dim colors.
In our painting these aspects are fullfilled in the study of the nude in a uprise position. The forms are strongly outlined and painted without hesitation.
Provenance:
Galery Leopold Zborowski, Paris
Litterature:
Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de André Derain Peint 1915-1934 by Michel Kellerman, Paris, 1996, tome II, page 163, nr. 959.
