Musée de l’Orangerie · 1928
Portrait of Madame Paul Guillaume with a Large Hat
André Derain
By 1928 Derain had abandoned the radical Fauve colour of his youth for a cooler, museum-schooled realism — this portrait shows off that later style: careful modelling, restrained palette, and a pose borrowed from centuries of formal portraiture rather than the wild brushwork that made him famous twenty years earlier.
Why it matters
By 1928 Derain had abandoned the radical Fauve colour of his youth for a cooler, museum-schooled realism — this portrait shows off that later style: careful modelling, restrained palette, and a pose borrowed from centuries of formal portraiture rather than the wild brushwork that made him famous twenty years earlier.
Look closer
Notice the wide-brimmed straw hat that frames her face like a halo, the loosely draped satin wrap slipping off one shoulder, and the small wristwatch on her lowered arm — a distinctly modern, 1920s detail inside an otherwise old-master pose.
Domenica Guillaume — Paul Guillaume's wife — later remarried collector Jean Walter after Guillaume's death, and the couple's combined collection became the founding gift of this museum; this portrait shows the woman whose two marriages, to two different collectors, are the reason this building exists as a museum at all.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €0.3–1.1 million.
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