Lot 16
  • 16

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Le Carnaval à Nice
  • signed Raoul Dufy (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 15 x 18 in.

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, London, 28th November 2007, lot 221
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries & Honolulu, Academy of Arts, Raoul Dufy, 1965-66, no. 14
Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo Sporting Club, Raoul Dufy, 1974, no. 15
London, Wildenstein & Co, Raoul Dufy, 1975, no. 16

Literature

Maurice Lafaille & Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre pent, supplément, Paris, 1985, no. 1862, illustrated p. 50

Condition

The canvas is lined. There are retouching along the upper edge and right edge and scattered along the left edge. There are further retouching predominately to the right part of the composition with some scattered spots to the centre. There is some frame rubbing along the edges and fine lines of craquellure in places. This work is in fairly good condition.
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Catalogue Note

“Eh well, I am going to tell you. Nice, is an oasis on the edge of the sea, with forests of mimosas and palm trees and there are Russian and English princes who fight with flowers. There are clowns who dance in the streets and confetti falling from the sky which forget no one. One day, I will go to Nice, me too, when I will be young.”
Romain Gary, La Vie devant soi