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PAYSAGE DE PROVENCE
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63 by 130.5cm.; 24 7/8 by 51 3/8 in.
signed
oil on canvas
Painted circa 1931-32.
PROVENANCE
Paul Guillaume, Paris
Galerie Ruaz, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in the 1940s)
EXHIBITED
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Derain, 1954-1955, no. 56
LITERATURE
Georges Hilaire, Derain, Geneva, 1959, pl. 143, illustrated
Michel Kellermann, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'~uvre peint, tome II 1915-1934, Paris, 1996, no. 643, p. 64, illustrated in colour
NOTE
Provence was a highly personal and irresistible subject for Derain. It provided him with an endless source for experimentation with atmospheric effects of light and colour. In this unusual landscape painting from the early 1930s, Derain celebrates the beauty of the Mediterranean Coast in a new way. Sweeping strokes of dazzling colour are replaced by the muted tones of a setting sun over the forbidding rocky crags that puncture the Provencal panorama.
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