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Property from a Private Collection, California

Raoul Dufy

Le Cirque

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

Raoul Dufy

1877 - 1953


Le Cirque

signed Raoul Dufy and dated 1934 (lower right)

oil on canvas

25 ⅝ by 31 ⅞ in.

60 by 81 cm.

Executed in 1934.

Dr. Alexandre Roudinesco, Paris (commissioned from the artist)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 10 October 1968, lot 67 (consigned by the above)
Evelyn Sharp, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, 12 November 1997, lot 19 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Marcel Brion, Raoul Dufy: Paintings and Watercolors, London 1958, no. 57, p. 111, illustrated
Maurice Lafaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. IV, Geneva 1977, no. 1585, p. 150, illustrated
Basel, Kunsthalle, Vlaminck, R. Dufy, Rouault, 1938, no. 76
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Chevaux et cavaliers, 1948, no. 53
Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Raoul Dufy, 1953, no. 72, pl. XX, illustrated
London, The Tate Gallery, Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 68 
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Chefs d’oeuvre de Raoul Dufy, 1959, no. 31, fig. 13, illustrated
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Evelyn Sharp Collection, 1978, no. 19, p. 43, illustrated in color