ID 1334561
Lot 455 | ANDRE DERAIN (1880-1954)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Nature morte à la soupière et bouteille
signed 'a Derain' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 21 7/8 in. (59.7 x 55.5 cm.)
Painted in 1904
Provenance
(probably) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Erih Šlomović, Paris.
Dane Reichsmann, Zagreb (probably acquired from the above, 1940).
Confiscated from the above by the Croatian fascist organization Ustaše during World War II in 1942 and placed on deposit at The National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb.
Restituted to the family of Dane Reichsman by the Croatian Government in 2023.
Literature
C. Hickley, "Croatian Museums Return Art Looted During Holocaust to Jewish Heir" in The New York Times, 22 September 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/9/22/arts/design/croatia-restitution-holocaust.html (accessed October 2024) (illustrated in color).
T. Staff, "In Apparent First, Croatia Restores Looted Art to the Grandson of Holocaust Victim" in The Times of Israel, 23 September 2023, https://www/timesofisrael.com/in-apparent-first-croatia-restorers-looted-art-to-grandson-of-holocaust-victim/ (accessed October 2024) (illustrated in color).
"Croatia Returns Looted Art to Grandson of Holocaust Victim" in Art Dependence Magazine, 25 September 2023, https://www.artdependence.com/articles/croatia-returns-looted-art-to-grandson-of-holocaust-victim/ (accessed October 2024) (illustrated in color).
K. Das, "Croatia Restorers Looted Art, In Apparent First..." in Boundless Ocean of Politics, 5 October 2023, https://boundlessoceanofpolitics.co.in/2023/10/05/croatia-restorers-looted-art-in-apparent-first/ (accessed October 2024) (illustrated in color).
W.A. Fisher and R.J. Weinberger, Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Property: A Current Worldwide Overview, Washington, D.C., 2024, p. 37.
Exhibited
Zagreb, Dom Likovnih Umjetnosti Kralja Petra I. Velikog Oslobodioca, Francuska Umjetnost: Iz Kolekcije Erih Šlomović, 1940, p. 10, no. 27 (illustrated, p. 87).
Further details
The Comité André Derain has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
| Artist: | André Derain (1880 - 1954) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Post-Impressionism |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | André Derain (1880 - 1954) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Post-Impressionism |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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