Grapes

Modern Art

early 1920s

André Derain
French, 1880-1954

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: André Derain
Title: Grapes
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1920–1925
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: A Derain
Dimensions: 25 × 44.1 cm (9 7/8 × 17 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1926.191
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 167, cat. 2225, as Grapes (Still Life).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection exh. cat. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1925), n. p., cat. 23, as Still Life Grapes.
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 32, 33 (ill.), 57.
Watson, Forbes, “A Note on the Birch-Bartlett Collection,” The Arts 9 (June 1926), p. 303 (ill.), as Still Life.
Zabel, Morton Dauwen, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, no. 6 (December 1928), p. 233, as Les Raisins.
Sherwood, Walter J., “The Famous Birch Bartlett collection,” The Chicago Visitor (October, 1932), p. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Lent from American Collections exh. cat. (Art Institute, 1933), p. 78, cat. 684.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture exh. cat. (Art Institute, 1934), p. 52, cat. 342.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 125.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 39, cat. 1E9.
Art Institute of Chicago,“ The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 222, 232 (ill.), no. 3.
Kellermann, Michael, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 86 (ill.), cat. 709, as Assiette de fruits et pichet, about 1924.

Art Institute of Chicago, Group of Modern Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, September 8–October 22, 1923.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, April 1925, n. p., cat. 23, as Still Life Grapes.
Boston Art Club, Birch-Bartlett Collection of Modern French Paintings, December 9–26, 1925, n.p., cat. 2, as Les raisins.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 78, cat. 684.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, p. 52, cat. 342.

Paul Guillaume, Paris [letter from Robert Stoppenbach, Dec. 8, 1975, copy in curatorial file]. Frederick Clay Bartlett, Chicago, by Aug. 1923 [shipping receipt, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926

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