Lot 225
  • 225

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Jardin à Montsaunès
  • Signed Raoul Dufy (lower right)
  • Watercolor and gouache on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 25 7/8 in.
  • 50.1 by 65.7 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré et Cie, Paris
Raoul Guillemard, Paris
Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
Acquired from the above circa 2002

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Ny-Carlsberg Glyptotek, Raoul Dufy, malerier, akvareller og tegninger, 1953, no. 69
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Raoul Dufy, 1953, no. 127
Nancy, 1956, no. 81
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny Musée Maillol & Nice, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, Jules Chéret, Raoul Dufy, un autre regard, 2003, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Claude Roger-Marx, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1950, no. 22, illustrated in color
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 620, illustrated p. 225

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is fixed to the overmount along the edges which are slightly irregular. There are various pencil inscriptions on the reverse. Apart from some light time-staining and a few tiny scattered spots of foxing, this work is in very good condition.
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