Raoul Dufy

Mrs. Th. Kennard, New York
Perls Galleries, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1951)
Thence by descent

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 34
Zurich, The Swiss Institute for Art Research, Maîtres de la 1^re Génération du XX^e Siècle, 1956, no. 15
Wolfsburg, Stadthalle Wolfsburg, French Painting, 1961

Christian Zervos, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1928, p. 68
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Geneva, 1973, no. 522, illustrated p. 95

The canvas has been lined. There is some minor frame abrasion visible at the extreme lower right corner and along the extreme bottom edge of the canvas. There is a minor pin-dot surface loss near the bottom right corner, as well as a pin-dot loss and abrasion near the center of the lower half of the canvas (in the fountain). The surface appears dirty and would benefit from a professional cleaning (and perhaps an effort to remove and replace its layer of varnish). There are a few thin, minor bands of stable cracking near the top left corner and in some of the thicker areas of pigment. Under UV light: a thick layer of varnish is difficult to read through and no inpainting is apparent. Overall the work is in good condition.
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