Gabriele Münter, Griesbrau. Obere Hauptstrasse in Murnau, 1908. Oil on cardboard, 33 x 41 cm. Inv. G 2020.2. Art museum Basel - purchase. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel.

Albert Marquet, Bords de la Seine à Paris en hiver, vue de l'atelier du peintre, around 1924. Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm. Inv. Dep 145. Private collection. Photo: Private collection.

BASEL.- The Kunstmuseum Basel announced that seven outstanding works of art, mainly by artists associated with the Fauve movement, are being shown on permanent loan. The works enhance an aspect of the museum’s collection of French Modernism that until now has been of lesser prominence than its first-rate holdings of Cubist art. From 4 July 2020, six of the paintings by André Derain, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and others, went on display on the second floor of the Hauptbau as part of the reinstallation of classic modernist art. In addition, a key painting by Gabriele Münter has also been acquired from the lenders’ collection.

The following paintings are to be shown in Basel for the first time:

André Derain, Pêcheurs à Collioure (Fishermen at Collioure), 1905. Oil on canvas, 46 x 54 cm. Inv. Dep 142. Kunstmuseum Basel - on permanent loan from a private collection. Photo: Private collection, © 2020, Pro Litteris, Zurich

Maurice de Vlaminck, Bords de la Seine à Carrières-sur-Seine, 1906. Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm. Inv. Dep 147. Photo: Kunstmuseum Basel - on permanent loan from a private collection. © Private collection.

Georges Braque, Port de l'Estaque, 1906. Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm. Inv. Dep 141. Kunstmuseum Basel - on permanent loan from a private collection. Photo: Private collection, ©2020, Pro Litteris, Zurich

Raoul Dufy, Les Passantes (The Passers-by), c.1906-07. Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm. Inv. Dep 144. Kunstmuseum Basel - on permanent loan from a private collection. Photo: Private collection, © 2020, Pro Litteris, Zurich.

Kees van Dongen, Portrait de Dolly (Portrait of Dolly), c.1910. Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm. Inv. Dep 143. Kunstmuseum Basel - on permanent loan from a private collection. Photo: Private collection, © 2020, Pro Litteris, Zurich.