09-11-200909-12-2009
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2470Boston
September 11, 2009 12:00 PMCalender
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Andre Derain (French, 1880-1954) The Juggler

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$2,370$2,000
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2470Location: BostonDate / Time: September 11, 2009 12:00PM

Description:

Andre Derain (French, 1880-1954)

The Juggler
Signed "a derain" l.r.
Gouache and graphite on paper, sheet size 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (20.6 x 13.0 cm),framed.
Condition: Toning, acid burn from tape verso on all four corners, not examined out of frame.
Provenance: Daniel Sickles, Paris, France; Hans Peter Kraus, New York; Estate of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (née Braman) Grasso, Essex, Connecticut.

Literature: [Collection Daniel Sickles] Bibliothèque d'un Amateur, Très Beaux Livres Illustrés Modernes Dans d'Importantes Reliures dont 53 Signées de Pierre Legrain, Exemplaires uniques dont Les Fleurs du Mal Illustrées par Rouault, Deuxieme partie, Paris: Musée Galliéra, 21 May 1963 (no. 265); Kraus, H.P., The Illustrated Book, Catalogue 108, no. 138, 1964.
N.B. The work was one of eight original drawings included in a presentation copy of Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux by Ambroise Vollard, published by Éditions Albin Michel in 1937, which was pen inscribed and gifted to his chauffeur Marcel Z. Méraud (see lot 777 for two letters in the Archives Matisse from Marcel Z. Méraud regarding the circumstances of Vollard's gift).
Estimate $2,000-4,000

Keywords

Hans Peter Kraus, Paris, Daniel Sickles, Andre Derain, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Essex, France, Connecticut, Pierre Legrain, Albin Michel, chauffeur