Mountains at Collioure

1905

André Derain

Artist, French, 1880 - 1954

Trees and mountains nearly fill this composition and are painted with long, mostly parallel brushstrokes in this horizontal landscape. The trees are painted with long dashes of royal and aquamarine blue, pine and mint green to suggest leaves on coral-red trunks. The grass below is lemon-lime yellow, and a walking path is picked out with lavender-purple strokes. The mountains beyond the trees are painted with flat areas of coral, apricot orange, and cobalt blue. The sky above is pale turquoise with a few swirling, cream-colored clouds.
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On View

East Building Mezzanine, Gallery 217-B

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    John Hay Whitney Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 81.3 × 100.3 cm (32 × 39 1/2 in.)
    framed: 107.95 × 127.64 × 11.11 cm (42 1/2 × 50 1/4 × 4 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1982.76.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly purchased from the artist by (Ambroise Vollard [1866-1939], Paris), until at least 1935.[1] (Paul Pétridès, Paris); acquired June 1951 on joint account by (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) and (Sidney Janis Gallery, New York); full ownership acquired October 1951 by (Sidney Janis Gallery, New York);[2] sold 1951 to John Hay Whitney [1904-1982], Manhasset, New York; deeded 1982 to the John Hay Whitney Charitable Trust, New York; gift 1982 to NGA.
[1] Letter of 17 April 1985 from Michel Kellerman, in NGA curatorial files. Two labels on the stretcher of the painting include Vollard's name, and appear to indicate he lent to the painting to exhibitions in 1935 (recorded in NGA conservation report, in NGA curatorial files).
[2] Although a letter of 9 July 1984 from Sidney Janis Gallery, now in NGA curatorial files, states that they acquired the painting from Knoedler in 1950, a letter of 9 January 1985 from Nancy Little, librarian at M. Knoedler & Co., also in NGA curatorial files, gives the more precise dates. The Knoedler number to which Ms. Little refers, A4642, is recorded in blue pencil on the stretcher of the painting. Ms. Little also confirms Pétridès as Knoedler's source. A letter of 5 March 1985 from the Galerie Pétridès, in NGA curatorial files, indicates that they have no additional information about the picture.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • Some Businessmen Collect Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1952, no. 9.

  • Les Fauves, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1952, repro.

1953

  • Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, no. 12, repro.

1959

  • Triumph der Farbe: Die Europaischen Fauves, Schaffhausen Museum zu Allerheiligen, Switzerland; Berlin Nationalgalerie der Ehemals Staatlichen Museen; Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, 1959, no. 31, repro.

1960

  • The John Hay Whitney Collection, The Tate Gallery, London, 1960-1961, no. 19, repro.

1976

  • The "Wild Beasts": Fauvism and Its Affinities, Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1976, repro.

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 40, repro., as Landscape at Collioure.

1983

  • The John Hay Whitney Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 42, repro.

1990

  • The Fauve Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1990-1991, 76-77, 277, pl. 87, as Paysage de Collioure (Landscape at Collioure).

1994

  • André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble modern", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1994-1995, no. 28, repro.

1997

  • André Derain, 1904-1912, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 1997, no. 8, repro.

1998

  • Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no catalogue.

1999

  • Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 75, repro.

  • Le Fauvisme ou "l'épreuve du feu": Éruption de la modernité en Europe, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1999-2000, no. 29, repro.

2004

  • Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no catalogue.

2005

  • Matisse-Derain: Collioure 1905, un été fauve", Musée départemental d'Art moderne, Céret; Musée départemental Matisse, Cateua-Cambrésis, 2005-2006, no. 82, repro. (shown only in Céret).

2013

  • Le Grand Atelier du Midi: De Van Gogh à Bonnard, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Palais Longchamp, Marseille, 2013, no. 36, repro.

2014

  • Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, 2014-2015, no catalogue.

2017

  • Andre Derain, 1904-1914: The Radical Decade, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2017-2018, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (shown only in Paris).

Bibliography

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 129, repro.

1989

  • Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 10, repro. 11.

1990

  • Freeman, Judi. The Fauve Landscape. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 76-77, 277, pl. 87.

1992

  • Kellermann, Michel. André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol. 1, 1895-1914. Paris, 1992: no. 64, 38, repro., as Paysage de Collioure.

2004

  • Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 416, no. 346, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: a derain

Wikidata ID

Q6925696

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