At the Suresnes Ball

Color plate after Derain; soldier dancing with woman, three other soldiers watching in background. From painting dated 1903 in the Saint Louis Art Museum. During the period of the painting, Derain was doing his military service at the Commercy Barracks in the Vosges. 'The lanky artilleryman in the center background is a portrait of the painter himself and is said to be an excellent likeness at the age of twenty-three' (Art News, Vol. XLIV, No. 3, March 15-31, 1945, page 8) Color plate after Derain; soldier dancing with woman, three other soldiers watching in background. From painting dated 1903 in the Saint Louis Art Museum. During the period of the painting, Derain was doing his military service at the Commercy Barracks in the Vosges. 'The lanky artilleryman in the center background is a portrait of the painter himself and is said to be an excellent likeness at the age of twenty-three' (Art News, Vol. XLIV, No. 3, March 15-31, 1945, page 8) Small upright folio; margins intact; clean.