Lot 223
  • 223

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Le Peintre Axilette et sa famille
  • Signed Raoul Dufy and dedicated à Perlot (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas mounted on panel
  • 17 1/4 by 15 1/4 in.
  • 43.9 by 38.6 cm

Provenance

Alexis Axilette (acquired from the artist)
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Mr. Moreau (acquired from the above)
Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris
Acquired from the above circa 2002

Literature

Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de 1895 à 1915, vol. I, Geneva, 1972, no. 233, illustrated p. 202

Condition

This work is in very good condition. On canvas mounted on panel. Panel is sound. Surface is clean. Under UV light a few small strokes of inpainting along extreme edge at upper left corner and along extreme bottom edge near lower right corner, otherwise fine.
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