Raoul Dufy

Marcelle Oury
Probably acquired in Paris, circa 1970

Maurice Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue Raisonné de L'Oeuvre Peint, Geneva, 1976, vol. III, no. 1197, illustrated p. 224

Very Good condition. A supporting stretcher has been added to board on reverse and painted with thin wash. Panel is slightly bowed on upper left. Surface is clean with tiny pinhead size loss at lower left under cello. Under UV light there is no apparent inpainting.
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Dora Perez-Tibi writes, "The 'Frileuse' occupies a privileged place in the Perpignan studios.  This sculpture is not made of clay, but is a nineteenth-century plaster cast, which had been kept in Dr. Nicolau's family for generations.  Dufy adopted it and depicted it, not as an archetype of the plaster-cast--the emblem of all classical representations of studios--but in order to accord it the same interest as the nude model" (Dufy, Paris, 1989, p. 246).