Personnage au bras gauche levé

Bronze with reddish-brown patina, signed, numbered and inscribed AT ANDRE DERAIN 4/11 on the reverse. Dimensions: 13 x 9.8 cm; 5 x 4 ¼ in. Provenance: Alice Derain, Chambourcy (wife of the artist);
Paris Art Gallery, New York; sale Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York, 18 .09.1968, lot 41; U.S. private collection. Literature: P. Cailler, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté de André Derain, Geneva, 1965, no. 24 (terracotta version illustrated); André Derain Scultore, exh. cat., Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano, 1994, p. 119, no. 131 (terracotta version illustrated). The Comité André Derain has confirmed the authenticity of this work.