Lot 54
  • 54

RAOUL DUFY | Vernet-les-Bains

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Vernet-les-Bains
  • signed Raoul Dufy and dated 1941 (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 50 x 66,5 cm; 19 3/4 x 26 1/4 in.
Executed in 1941.

Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré et Cie, Paris
Marcel Arland, Paris
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Marcelle Berr de Turique, Raoul Dufy, L'amour de l'art, Paris, 1953, illustrated p. 25
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 417, illustrated p. 152

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, glued to the mount along the extreme edges. The sheet is undulating. Both right and left edges are deckled with associated nicks. There is some mount staining with associated dots of foxing along the extreme edges (not visible when framed). There are a few scattered faint spots of foxing. Colours are fresh and vivid. This work is in overall good condition.
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