Ballet Dancer

Modern Art

late 1920s

André Derain
French, 1880-1954

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Artist: André Derain
Title: Ballet Dancer
Origin: France
Date: 1925–1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l. r. "a derain"
Dimensions: 17 15/16 × 14 9/16 in. (45.6 × 37 cm)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.66
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 125.
Grung, Sandra, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1971), p. 30.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 39, cat. 1E10.
Kellerman, Michael, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 190 (ill.), cat. 1066, as Danseuse en tutu, 1926–1927.

Theodore Schempp, Paris and New York, c. 1941 [Schempp catalogue data sheet, May 22, 1975, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, July 23, 1942 [receipt in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

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