Andre Derain - from July 3rd, 2010 Antiques Trade Gazette cover story

With the wonderfully unusual, amusing and petite painting on glass by Andre Derain, recently included in The Fine Art Partnership's collection, entitled Conical Privet dressed as a Gardener ...with hat and staff and red shoes; a reverse oil painting on glass. Signed. 10” x 8” (25.4cm x 20.3cm)

it was most reassuring for our buyers to read in the ATG that:

"Greater interest at Sotheby's (Impressionist & Modern Sale of June 22nd) emerged for a 1905 Fauvist landscape by Andre Derain (1880 - 1954), which came from the lost collection of dealer Ambroise Follard and had been stashed away, largely forgotten, in a paris bank vault for 40 years. Against a £9m-£14m estimate, at least four bidders pursued Arbres a Collioure and it sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for £14.5m, another artist record."

To have an original painting by Andre Derain being offered by The Fine Art Partnership Ltd, also from a private collection, for £13,750 makes another worthy news story indeed for art hunters of museum quality works of the period!