Danseuses I (For the Ballets Russes), c. 1927
Charcoal
25 x 18.5 inches
Signed in pencil
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Provenance
Private Collection, Paris
Note: One of a series of drawings made by Derain for the Ballets Russes in c. 1927. Writing to Vanessa Bell in 1919 Roger Fry remarked, ‘Derain is here and will be for some weeks. He’s perfectly charming and not at all “the great man”… He’s tremendously encouraging about my work, which he really seems to like a good deal.’
Literature
Collectif, sous la direction de Suzanne Pagé, André Derain le peintre du "trouble moderne", catalogue de l'exposition du Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1994, un dessin tres proche, de la meme suit reproduit p. 355