(Chatou 1880–1954 Garches bei Paris)
Études pour l’Age d’or (le Paradis terrestre, la chasse), around 1937 – 1938, signed a. derain, india ink on tracing paper mounted on canvas, 76 x 130 cm, framed

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity by Mrs. Geneviève Taillade, grandniece and right holder of the artist, made in Paris in agreement with the Comité Derain, on December 5, 2019.

Provenance:
Jacques and Liliane Mourlot collection, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (2011)
Private Collection, Belgium

Literature:
Michel Charzat, André Derain. Le Titan foudroyé, Editions Hazan, Paris, 2015, ill., planche IX, pp. 128 – 129
André Derain, 1904 – 1914, la décennie radicale, Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris, 2017, exh. cat. under the direction of Cécile Debray, pp. 223 – 224, ill.

Note:
Preparatory drawing made ca. 1937 – 1938, for “L’Age d’Or (Le Paradis Terrestre, La Chasse)” in the collections of the MNAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, which is the largest painting Derain made in his entire career. In the preparatory drawing, there are 11 naked hunters like ancient heroes and animals: bird, lion and club, deer and doe, squirrel, rabbit, ... In the final painting, Derain reduced his composition to only 4 characters, 3 of which are dressed in animal skins, and 5 wild animals.