RAOUL DUFY | Le Square Notre-Dame

Mr & Mrs Arthur Rubinstein (sale: Maîtres Poulain & Le Fur, Paris, 3rd July 2002, lot 56)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2013, lot 222
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Amsterdam, Maîtres français, XIX et XX siècle, 1966, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1981, vol. I, no. 48, illustrated p. 18

Executed on cream laid paper and laid down on card. There is a cluster of artist's pinholes to the upper and lower right corners. There is a repaired tear in the sky across the upper right corner (approx. 7cm long). There is another smaller tear to the lower part of the right edge and one to the centre of the upper edge. There are some paper losses to the extreme edges most of which are not visible when framed. The sheet is time-stained with a faint mount stain along the edges and there is scattered foxing, most noticeable in the sky in the upper right quadrant. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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