André Derain (1880-1954)
L'église de Crécy-en-Brie
signed 'a derain' (upper right)
oil on canvas
21 x 20 in. (54.8 x 53.5 cm.)
Painted in 1911
André Derain (1880-1954)
L'église de Crécy-en-Brie
signed 'a derain' (upper right)
oil on canvas
21 x 20 in. (54.8 x 53.5 cm.)
Painted in 1911
Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris. H.F. Secker, Cologne. Richard Goetz, Paris. Albert Otten, New Jersey (acquired from the above, by 1937); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 25 September 2003, lot 522. Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 14 September 2005, lot 124. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
M. Kellerman, André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 119, no. 194 (illustrated).
Kunsthalle Bern, André Derain, July-August 1935, p. 3, no. 2 (titled Kirchenportal). Madison, New Jersey, Drew University, February-March 1958. Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University, Art on the Campus, May-June 1959, no. 4 (illustrated). Delaware, Ohio Wesleyan University, The Albert Otten Collection, March-April (possibly) 1965. Maine, Portland Museum of Art, A Passion for Art, The Albert Otten Collection, October 1987-January 1988, p. 17, no. 15 (illustrated).