RAOUL DUFY | Les Quais de la Seine, Quai de la Tournelle

Executed circa 1901.

Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris
Edouard & Jeannine Chapet, Paris

San Francisco Civic auditorium, United States World Trade fair, From Géricault to our time, 1966, no. 41 (titled Quays of the Seine)

It has not been possible to see the work entirely unframed. Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down and affixed between mount and overmount. The sheet is slightly undulating. Examination under UV light reveals one dot and one small line of fluorescence towards the centre of the left edge. There are two tiny dots of red pigment, possibly original, and a dot of paper remnant as well as a spot of faint abrasion to the sheet towards the centre of the left edge. There is a dot of brown pigment, with associated possible foxing, to the left part of the bridge. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall good condition.
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Fanny Guillon-Laffaille has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work which will be included in her forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonné of Watercolors, Gouaches and Pastels currently in preparation.