Lot 185
  • 185

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Moulay Idriss
  • signed Raoul Dufy (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 50.2 by 65cm.,19 3/4 by 25 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8th December 1928, lot 7
René Gaffé, Brussels
Sale: Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 4th April 1957, lot 80
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Raoul Dufy, 1943, no. 38

Literature

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1981, vol. I, no. 375, illustrated p. 135

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount along all four edges and floating in the mount. The upper, lower and right edges of the sheet are deckled. The sheet is slightly time stained and there are scattered, faint spots of foxing throughout. There are some flattened creases to the upper right and lower left corners and there are two minor repaired tears to the right part of the lower edge (each approximately 3mm long). There are spots of paint shrinkage to the more thickly applied white medium with some minor spots of paint loss. This work is in overall good condition.
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