[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris]; Professor Dr. Georg Biermann, Rottach-Egern, Germany (1914–23; purchased in 1914 for $1,500; sold in July 1923, for $1,500, through Rudolf Staechelin, Basel, to Thayer); Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1931–82; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue (typed checklist no. 9; as "Landscape").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 9 (as "Landscape").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 24 (as "Landscape: Camiers").
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 33.
Daniel Henry [Kahnweiler]. André Derain. Leipzig, 1920, ill. frontispiece (color), as "Ansicht von Camiers," 1911.
Margaret Breuning. "New York Art Galleries Crowded with Many Shows. Living Art." New York Evening Post (February 2, 1924), p. [14].
Harley Perkins. "The Dial Collection of Living Art: Paintings, Water Colors and Engravings Assembled by Scofield Thayer and Exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum." Boston Evening Transcript (March 22, 1924), p. 8.
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Dial 79 (October 1925), ill. between pp. 266 and 267 (color), as "Landscape".
F[rancis]. H[enry] T[aylor]. "Modern French Paintings in the Museum." Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum 22, no. 4 (January 1932), pp. 70–71, ill., as "French Landscape".
Louisa Dresser inThe Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 66, no. 24, ill., states that it was painted in 1911 at Camiers on the Channel coast; mentions two other paintings of the same site, "The Hornpipe Player" now called "The Bagpiper" (1911; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Kellermann 1992, no. 198) and "Landscape: Camiers" (1911; private collection, Switzerland; Kellermann 1992, no. 203).
William Wasserstrom. A Dial Miscellany. Syracuse, 1963, ill. after p. 204.
Michel Kellermann. André Derain: Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Vol. 1, 1895–1914. Paris, 1992, p. 124, no. 204, ill., as "Paysage de Camiers (Pas-de-Calais)"; catalogues five other paintings of Camiers (K 198, 201, 202, 203, 206).
Derain travelled to Camiers, near Pas-de Calais, in August 1911 (see "André Derain: An Outsider in French Art," Copenhagen, 2007, p. 246). Similar paintings of Camiers are in the Minneapolis Institute of Art , Columbus Museum of Art, private collections, Switzerland and a private collection, United States (Kellermann 1992, nos. 198, 201, 202, 203, 206).
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