JEAN DUFY | Honfleur, l'écluse du vieux bassin

Marble Arch Gallery, New York (acquired by 1964)
Private Collection, Hastings (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 11th February 2004, lot 74)
Private Collection, London (purchased at the above sale; sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2013, lot 410)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

New York, The Marble Arch Gallery, Jean Dufy, First Memorial Show, 1964, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre, Paris, 2010, vol.II, no. J.770, illustrated p. 111

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount at the verso of the upper corners, at the centre of the upper edge and floating in its mount. There are remnants of old framers tape along the verso of all four edges. The sheet is time stained and gently undulating. There are three small tears to the upper right edge of the sheet across the tip of the corner. There are a few minor spots of foxing in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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