Lot 28
  • 28

Jean Dufy

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Dufy
  • Sieste du chat dans l'atelier
  • Signed Jean Dufy and dated 24 (lower right)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 21 by 19 1/8 in.
  • 53 by 48.6 cm
  • Executed in 1924.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Literature

Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre, vol. I, Paris, 2002, no. J.620, illustrated p. 313

Condition

Watercolor on paper laid down on paper. Surface in generally good condition. Pinholes at all four corners. Some scattered foxing on sheet. The sheet on which the work has been laid shows signs of mat staining and foxing. VERSO: Mat stain and scattered foxing.
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