ANDRÉ DERAIN Lot n° 25

Andre Derain French, 1880-1954 Nature Morte aux Fruits sur Velours Vert, circa 1928 Signed Derain (lr) Oil on canvas 18 1/8 x 24 inches (46 x 61 cm) Provenance: Albert Sarraut, Paris, thence by descent [Sale] Christie's, South Kensington, Feb. 8, 2013, lot 142 Literature: Waldemar George, La collection d'un homme d'etat, L'Art Vivant, no. 234, July 1939, illus. p. 30 The Comite Derain has confirmed the authenticity of this work Albert-Pierre Sarraut (1872-1962) was a French Socialist politician best known for his liberal governorship of French Indochina from 1911-1914 and 1916-1919. He was twice prime minister of France during the 1930s.