
Property of a Gentleman
La Baie des Anges à Nice
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Raoul Dufy
1877 - 1953
La Baie des Anges à Nice
signed Raoul Dufy (lower centre)
oil on canvas
60.7 by 73.3 cm. 23 ⅞ by 28 ⅞ in.
Framed: 81.5 by 94.5 cm. 32 by 37 ¼ in.
Executed in Nice in 1926.
Lefevre Gallery, London
Carroll Carstairs, New York (acquired in 1939)
Mrs. Harry B. Spalding, Buffalo
Private Collection, New York (by descent from the above)
Christie's, New York, 5 May 2005, lot 266 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby's, London, 20 June 2018, lot 161 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Lefevre Gallery, Raoul Dufy, 1936, no. 15, illustrated
London, Lefevre Gallery, L'École de Paris, 1938, no. 16, illustrated
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Art of our Time, 1939, no. 97, illustrated
Nice, Musée des Beaux Arts, Raoul Dufy, La promenade comme motif, 2015, n.n.
Pierre Courthion, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1929, n.n., illustrated pl. 76
The Bystander, London, 14 December 1938, n.n., illustrated in colour n.p.
Glasgow Herald, 1 February 1940, n.n., illustrated n.p.
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Geneva, 1973, vol.II, no. 430, illustrated p. 20