View of the Thames

1906

André Derain

Artist, French, 1880 - 1954

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On View

East Building Mezzanine, Gallery 217-B

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 73.3 x 92.2 cm (28 7/8 x 36 5/16 in.)
    framed: 95.2 x 113.7 x 7.3 cm (37 1/2 x 44 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1906 by (Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris).[1] Pieter van der Velde [1848-1922], Le Havre. Private collection, Paris, in 1955. [2] (Robert Schmit, Paris) probably by 1969;[3] sold 18 August 1971 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia;[4] gift 1985 to NGA.
[1] This information is from the provenance as published in André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble moderne", Exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1995: 470.
[2] Exhibited at Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1955.
[3] The painting was exhibited at Galerie Schmit in 1969.
[4] This is the check date; the invoice is dated 21 June 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Cinquante tableaux importants de André Derain, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1955, no.3, repro., dated 1904.

1973

  • French Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1973-1978, unnumbered checklist.

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist.

1990

  • The Fauve Landscape, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London,1990-1991, pl. 207 (shown only in Los Angeles and New York).

1994

  • André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble modern", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1994-1995, no. 44, repro.

2005

  • Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Brooklyn Museum; The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2005, no. 10, 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

1989

  • Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: 14, repro. 15.

1990

  • Freeman, Judi. The Fauve Landscape. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 199, 278, pl. 207.

1992

  • Kellermann, Michel. André Derain, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol. 1, 1895-1914. Paris, 1992: no. 98, 63, repro., as Le Port de Londres.

Inscriptions

lower right: a.derain06

Wikidata ID

Q20191073

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