diff --git a/docs/changes.rst b/docs/changes.rst
index ffb1efe..894cc29 100644
--- a/docs/changes.rst
+++ b/docs/changes.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ Version 1.2.0
 * When creating a custom proxy by deriving from ObjectProxy and the custom
   proxy needed to override __getattr__(), it was not possible to called the
   base class ObjectProxy.__getattr__() when the C implementation of
-  ObjectProxy was being used.
+  ObjectProxy was being used. The derived class __getattr__() could also
+  get ignored.
 
 Version 1.1.3
 -------------
diff --git a/src/_wrappers.c b/src/_wrappers.c
index b6ddbba..fde4b1c 100644
--- a/src/_wrappers.c
+++ b/src/_wrappers.c
@@ -1164,6 +1164,9 @@ static PyObject *WraptObjectProxy_getattro(
         WraptObjectProxyObject *self, PyObject *name)
 {
     PyObject *object = NULL;
+    PyObject *result = NULL;
+
+    static PyObject *getattr_str = NULL;
 
     object = PyObject_GenericGetAttr((PyObject *)self, name);
 
@@ -1172,12 +1175,24 @@ static PyObject *WraptObjectProxy_getattro(
 
     PyErr_Clear();
 
-    if (!self->wrapped) {
-      PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "wrapper has not been initialised");
-      return NULL;
+    if (!getattr_str) {
+#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3
+        getattr_str = PyUnicode_InternFromString("__getattr__");
+#else
+        getattr_str = PyString_InternFromString("__getattr__");
+#endif
     }
 
-    return PyObject_GetAttr(self->wrapped, name);
+    object = PyObject_GenericGetAttr((PyObject *)self, getattr_str);
+
+    if (!object)
+        return NULL;
+
+    result = PyObject_CallFunction(object, "(O)", name);
+
+    Py_DECREF(object);
+
+    return result;
 }
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -1195,7 +1210,12 @@ static PyObject *WraptObjectProxy_getattr(
         return NULL;
 #endif
 
-    return WraptObjectProxy_getattro(self, name);
+    if (!self->wrapped) {
+      PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "wrapper has not been initialised");
+      return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return PyObject_GetAttr(self->wrapped, name);
 }
 
 /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
diff --git a/tests/test_object_proxy.py b/tests/test_object_proxy.py
index 5f68491..9696b02 100644
--- a/tests/test_object_proxy.py
+++ b/tests/test_object_proxy.py
@@ -1292,17 +1292,6 @@ class TestDerivedClassCreation(unittest.TestCase):
 
 class DerivedClassAttributes(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_attr_functions(self):
-
-        def function():
-            pass
-
-        proxy = wrapt.ObjectProxy(function)
-
-        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__getattr__'))
-        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__setattr__'))
-        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__delattr__'))
-
     def test_setup_class_attributes(self):
 
         def function():
@@ -1397,5 +1386,42 @@ class DerivedClassAttributes(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertFalse(hasattr(obj, 'ATTRIBUTE'))
         self.assertFalse(hasattr(function, 'ATTRIBUTE'))
 
+class OverrideAttributeAccess(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_attr_functions(self):
+
+        def function():
+            pass
+
+        proxy = wrapt.ObjectProxy(function)
+
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__getattr__'))
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__setattr__'))
+        self.assertTrue(hasattr(proxy, '__delattr__'))
+
+    def test_override_getattr(self):
+
+        def function():
+            pass
+
+        accessed = []
+
+        class DerivedObjectProxy(wrapt.ObjectProxy):
+            def __getattr__(self, name):
+                accessed.append(name)
+                try:
+                    __getattr__ = super(DerivedObjectProxy, self).__getattr__
+                except AttributeError as e:
+                    raise RuntimeError(str(e))
+                return __getattr__(name)
+
+        function.attribute = 1
+
+        proxy = DerivedObjectProxy(function)
+
+        self.assertEqual(proxy.attribute, 1)
+
+        self.assertTrue('attribute' in accessed)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()