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André Derain (1880-1954)
Graphite drawing on paper.
Portrait of a young woman.
Signed with the studio stamp lower right.
Soberly framed under glass in a natural oak baguette frame.
Sight H 38.5 x 30 cm
Provenance :
- Artist's studio
- Paris private collection
André Derain was a French painter, born on June 10, 1880 in Chatou (Seine-et-Oise, now Yvelines) and died on September 8, 1954 in Garches (Seine-et-Oise, now Hauts-de-Seine). He was one of the founders of Fauvism. He was also a painter of ballet and theater sets and costumes, an engraver, illustrator, sculptor and writer.
Hailed as the pioneer of a new art form, Fauvism, before the 1914 war, after 1918 he turned to a realism with a renewed classicism, expressing his taste for theater and literature, which made him one of the major figures of the interwar period.
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