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Information

Artist

André Derain

1880
Chatou (Seine-et-Oise), Frankreich

1954
Garches (Seine-et-Oise), Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 60 × 73.2 × 2.5 cm
Frame: 85.5 × 98.7 × 10.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.l.: "a derain"

Accession Number

1029

Catalogue Raisonné

Kellermann 55

Acquisition year

1965

Provenance

The painting “Bateaux à Collioure” by André Derain was verifiably owned by the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard from 1930. As Vollard bought various works from Derain’s studio in 1905 and subsequently signed a contract with the artist, it can be assumed that Vollard had already owned the painting since its creation. Vollard died in a car accident in July 1939. His estate passed to his siblings and the de Galéa family, with whom Vollard was in close contact throughout his life. As Derain’s work can still be found in Vollard’s collection in 1938, it can be assumed that it was still part of his estate in 1939, which was largely sold off by his heirs during the Second World War. This work was also sold at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris in March 1941. However, due to a lack of evidence about the consignor and the buyer from 1941, as well as a lack of exhibition or publication references, its further provenance until 1965 is unknown. That year, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Bateaux à Collioure” through the Lefevre Gallery and an art dealer from a private collection in Paris for its holdings.

Between 2009 and 2012, several freelance provenance researchers examined the origins (provenance) of all works in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen as part of a comprehensive research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. The focus was on all works created before 1945. For the painting “Bateaux à Collioure,” the ownership history during the National Socialist period (1933–1945) could not be fully clarified. For this reason, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen commissioned a more in-depth investigation into the history of this work in 2025.

If you have any questions or information regarding this work, please contact us:
Dr. Vivien Trommer
Head of Collection
trommer@kunstsammlung.de

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1965 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions

Vincent van Gogh und die Moderne, 9.8.-3.11.1990, Museum Folkwang, Essen
André Derain. Le peintre du "trouble moderne", 8.11.1994-14.3.1995, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
The Fauves, 7.12.1995-17.2.1996, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Signac et la libération de la couleur. De Matisse à Mondrian, 8.3.-24.5.1997, Musée de Grenoble
Le Fauvisme ou "l'épreuve du feu". Eruption de la modernité en Europe, 20.10.1999-26.2.2000, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Farbe zu Licht, 15.4.-29.7.2000, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Matisse - Derain. Collioure 1905, un été fauve, 10.6.-17.9.2005, Museum of Modern Art, Céret
André Derain. An Outsider in French Art, 9.2.-12.5.2007, Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen
Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya City Art Museum, Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe
Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Picasso 1905 in Paris, 24.9.2011-14.1.2012, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
los fauves. la pasión por el color/The Fauves. Passion for Color, 21.10.2016-28.1.2017, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid (Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall, Madrid)
Inspiration Matisse, 26.9.2019-18.1.2020, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Georges Braque 1906 - 1914. Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism, 24.9.2021-22.1.2022, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Kleehalle)
Fauves, 31.8.2023-30.1.2024, Kunstmuseum Basel
Van Gogh and the Fauves, 30.9.2027-30.1.2028, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam