Lot 410
  • 410

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Boston Docks
  • Signed Raoul Dufy (toward lower right)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 25 1/2 in.
  • 50 by 65 cm

Provenance

Louis Carré Gallery, Paris
Frank Perls Galleries, Beverly Hills
Galerie Jacques Bailly, Paris
Acquired from the above

Exhibited

New York, Louis Carré Gallery, Raoul Dufy, 1951, no. 16
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute & Chicago, The Arts Club, Raoul Dufy, Exhibition of Work in the USA, 1951, no. 16
Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Raoul Dufy, 1952, no. 136
London, Tate Gallery, Raoul Dufy: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1954, no. 86
Basel, Kunsthalle, Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 126
Knokke-le-Zoute, Casino Communal, Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 71
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Hommage à Raoul Dufy, 1954-55, no. 21
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van-Abbe Museum, Raoul Dufy, 1955, no. 12
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Raoul Dufy, 1956, no. 31
Vichy, Salle Majestic, Deuxième festival de peinture et sculpture de Vichy, Hommage à Raoul Dufy, 1957, no. 23
New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953, 1962, no. 49
Bièvres, Moulin de Vauboyen, Raoul Dufy, 1968-69, no. 48
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Raoul Dufy, 1970, no. 143

Literature

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 781, illustrated p. 285

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper which has been affixed to a window mat with adhesive around all four edges of its verso. There are some scattered and faint spots of foxing most notably within the water at lower center and left. The sheet is lightly time-stained. Overall the pigments are bright and fresh. A 1-inch repaired tear extending horizontally from the upper left edge. The work is in overall very good condition.
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