
Art Institute of Chicago
Fountain
André Derain · early 1920s
Provenance
Ownership history
- Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, by May 1926 [shipping receipt, copy in curatorial file]. Frederick Clay Bartlett, Chicago, by May 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 78, cat. 683.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, p. 52, cat. 341.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 34, 35 (ill.), 57.
- Zabel, Morton Dauwen, “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26, no. 6 (December 1928), p. 233, as Le Bassin.
- Sherwood, Walter J., “The Famous Birch Bartlett collection,” The Chicago Visitor (October, 1932), p. 40.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection, (Art Institute, 1946), pp. 8, 9 (ill.), 54, as The Fountain (Le Bassin).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute, 1961), p. 125.
- Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 39, cat. 1E8.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection,” Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 222, 231 (ill.), no. 2.
- Kellermann, Michael, André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris: Éditions Galerie Schmit, 1996), p. 132 (ill.), cat. 852, as Baigneuses a la fontaine, about 1920–1921.
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