Collection Andre Derain et Divers Amateurs. Tableaux Modernes: Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches. Vente a Paris Galerie Charpentier, 22 mars 1955
Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1955. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover auction catalogue. Illustrated wraps with red titles. 70 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. French text. G+. Paper loss at head and tail of spine, some wear around the edges, and toning to wraps. Item #213157
Catalogue published on the occasion of the auction of the André Derain collection, after his death, at the Hôtel Drouot from March 9 to 11, 1955.
"André Derain Collection, First Sale.
Posthumous sale (first sale): objects from early Chinese periods: terracottas from the Han, Wei, Suei, Tang periods, bronzes from China, Luristan, northern Syria and Scytho-Siberian: classical antiquities: Cypriot, Egyptian and Greek terracottas, stones and marbles from Cyprus, Rome and Egypt...: primitive African art: masks and statues from the Ivory Coast and Gabon, important collection of bronzes from the Kingdom of Benin...: primitive art from South America: folk and folk art: lead objects, iron statuettes, model boats...: Middle Ages and Renaissance: stone and wood sculptures...: sale, Wednesday 9, Thursday 10 and Friday 11 March 1955, at 2 p.m., room no. 1 / Hôtel Drouot, Paris / Me Maurice Rheims, Me Boisgirard, auctioneers; assisted by Mr. Michel Beurdeley and Mr. Jean Roudillon, experts.
621 lots.
OCLC: 24311791
Price: $200.00