Lot 469
  • 469

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Fès, les terrasses
  • signed Raoul Dufy (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 49.9 by 65cm., 19 5/8 by 25 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Docteur Soubies Collection, Paris
Sale: Palais Galléria, Paris, 12th March 1975, lot 7
Sale: Hotel du Barry, Versailles, 9th November 1975, lot 77
Private Collection, Switzerland
Galerie Haus zum Wolf, Basel
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2009

Literature

L'Œil, November 1973, no. 220, p. 37
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1982, vol. I, no. 368, illustrated p. 132

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on card and floating in the mount. There are some tiny nicks in places to the extreme right and left edges, including a small loss to the upper left corner. There are staining along the right, left and upper edges and the sheet is slightly faded. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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