Le Jongleur

Bronze with reddish-brown patina, signed, numbered and inscribed AT ANDRE-DERAIN 4/11 on the reverse. Dimensions: 5 ¼ x 4 5⁄8 in. (13.6 x 11.5 cm.) Provenance: Alice Derain, Chambourcy (wife of the artist); Paris Art Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, March 1966); Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 18.09.1968, lot 44; U.S. Private Collection. Literature: P. Cailler, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté de André Derain, Geneva, 1965, no. 30 (terracotta version illustrated). André Derain Scultore, exh. cat., Galleria Pieter Coray, Lugano, 1994, p. 121, no. 139 (terracotta version illustrated). The Comité André Derain has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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