Lot 260
  • 260

Jean Dufy

Estimate
18,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean Dufy
  • HAUTE ÉCOLE MEXICAINE
  • signed Jean Dufy (lower right)
  • gouache on paper
  • 48.5 by 63.5cm., 19 1/8 by 25 in.

Provenance

Galerie Jacques Bailly, Paris
Private Collection, London

Literature

Jacques Bailly, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de Jean Dufy, 1888-1964, Paris, 2002, vol. I, no. J.491, illustrated in colour p. 265

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, taped to the overmount along all four edges. Apart from a few faint spots of staining to the lower centre, this work is in very good condition. Colours: The blues are deeper in the original.
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