André Derain (1880-1954)

TETE DE FEMME (Head of a Woman). ca. 1910. Adhémar 37. Drypoint, 314 x 217 mm (12 3/8 x 8 1/2”) plus full margins. Signed in pencil. Fine, rich impression of this extremely striking drypoint. In very good condition, except for a fold and short repaired tear in the lower right margin corner.

Jane Lee points out in her article The Prints of Derain, Print Quarterly, VII, 1990, 1, that the style of this print is not so much influenced by Cubism as inspired by a late medieval wood carving of the Virgin and Child which Derain kept in his studio.

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