This work displays a reduced palette of red, blue, and brown and an austere composition of three bowls, a pitcher, and a vase. It shows Derain's increasing sensitivity to traditional iconography and genre painting after the brightly colored, gestural paintings of his Fauve years (1905-7).

Inscription: Signed (lower right): derain

[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, 1911–14; purchased from the artist, stock no. 2006; sequestered Kahnweiler stock, Paris, 1914–21; second Kahnweiler sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 17–18, 1921, no. 70, as "La Table," for Fr 6,800, to Lefebure); M. Lefebure [possibly Lefèvre or Lefebvre?] (from 1921); C. Girard, Paris (sold in June 1952, for $4,053.27, to P. Matisse); [Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1952–54; stock no. SP5, sold on May 11, 1954 to MMA]

Paris. Galerie Charpentier. "Autour de 1900," 1950, no. 68 (as "La table de cuisine," 1910) [probably this picture; see Ref. Sterling and Salinger 1967].

Paris. Galerie Charpentier. "Natures mortes françaises du XVIIe siècle à nos jours," December 18, 1951–February 11, 1952, no. 43 (as "La table").

New York. Pierre Matisse Gallery. "Still Life and the School of Paris," December 1952, no. 6 (as "The Blue Pitcher").

Kassel. Museum Fridericianum. "Documenta III: Internationale Ausstellung," June 27–October 5, 1964, no. 8 (as "The Table").

Edinburgh. Royal Scottish Academy. "Derain," August 19–September 17, 1967, no. 46.

London. Royal Academy. "Derain," September 30–November 5, 1967, no. 46.

Rome. Villa Medici. "Derain," November 13, 1976–January 23, 1977, no. 15.

Paris. Grand Palais. "André Derain," February 15–April 11, 1977, no. 18.

Canberra. Australian National Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," March 1–April 27, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 9).

Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," May 7–July 1, 1986, unnumbered cat.

Yokohama Museum of Art. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century," March 25–June 4, 1989, no. 159.

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "André Derain: Le peintre du 'trouble moderne'," November 18, 1994–March 19, 1995, no. 89.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895 1950," March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 32).

Madrid. Museo Thyssen Bornemisza. "Forma: El Ideal Clásico en el Arte Moderno," October 9, 2001–January 13, 2002, no. 36.

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," September 14–November 24, 2002, no. 17.

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003, no. 17.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection," May 18–September 12, 2004, no catalogue [withdrawn in August for Exh. Essen 2004–5].

Museum Folkwang Essen. "Cézanne and the Dawn of Modern Art," September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005, unnumbered cat. (p. 91).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from The Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection, Part 3," February 15–June 26, 2005, no catalogue.

André Salmon. André Derain. Paris, 1929, ill. p. 13.

Christian Zervos. Histoire de l'art contemporain. Paris, 1938, ill. p. 176.

Howard Devree. "By Contemporaries." New York Times (December 14, 1952), p. X9.

Blanca Stabile. "André Derain." Ver y estimar no. 2 (December 1954), ill. p. 3.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, XIX–XX Centuries. New York, 1967, p. 224, ill.

John Russell. "Gallery View: Pondering the Path of Derain." New York Times (July 20, 1980), p. D23, ill.

Malcolm Gee. Dealers, Critics, and Collectors of Modern Painting: Aspects of the Parisian Art Market Between 1910 and 1930. PhD. diss., Courtauld Institute of Art. New York, 1981, appendix F, pp. 77, 83, no. 107.

Ross Woodrow in 20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Australian National Gallery. Canberra, 1986, p. 9, ill. (color).

Lisa M. Messinger in Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1989, pp. 196–97, no. 159, ill. (color).

Jane Lee. Derain. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Oxford, 1990, p. 37.

Michel Kellermann. André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Vol. 1, 1895–1914. Paris, 1992, p. 172, no. 284, ill. pp. 172, 181 (color and bw).

Merlin James. "Book Reviews: André Derain. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Tome I (1895–1914)." Burlington Magazine 136 (June 1994), p. 392.

Françoise Marquet in André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble moderne". Exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, 1994, p. 182.

\Miriam Simon in André Derain: Le peintre du "trouble moderne". Exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, 1994, pp. 188, 190–91, 475, no. 89, ill. (color).

Anna Gruetzner Robins. Modern Art in Britain 1910–1914. Exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery. London, 1997, p. 190.

Tomas Llorens in Forma: El Ideal Clásico en el Arte Moderno. Exh. cat., Museo Thyssen Bornemisza. Madrid, 2001, pp. 108–10, 204, no. 36, ill. (color).

Francesco Poli in André Derain: La forma classica. Exh. cat., Centro Saint Bénin, Aosta. Milan, 2003, pp. 26–27, ill.

Sabine Rewald in "Selections from the Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61 (Spring 2004), p. 12, ill.

Dorthe Aagesen in André Derain: An Outsider in French Art. Exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst. [Copenhagen], 2007, pp. 218–20, fig. 1 (color).

Natalia Demina in Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage. Ed. Albert Kostenevich. Exh. cat., State Hermitage Museum. Amsterdam, 2010, p. 158, ill. (color).