Lot 47
  • 47

Raoul Dufy

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Paddock à Ascot
  • Stamped Raoul Dufy (lower right)
  • Pen and ink on Japan paper
  • 9 by 21 1/2 in.
  • 22.8 by 54.8 cm
  • Executed circa 1935.

Provenance

Berthe Reysz, Paris
Private collection (acquired from the above, and thence by descent until sold: Sotheby's, London, June 26, 2008, lot 253)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Dessins, 1987, no. 15
London, Opera Gallery, Raoul Dufy, 2005

Literature

Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Catalogue raisonné des dessins de Raoul Dufy, Paris, vol. I, no. 439, illustrated p. 180

Condition

The mediu is pen and ink on paper. The sheet is attached to the mat backing at several points along the top edge verso. There is faint mat stain to the margins. There are two repaired tears along the top edge near the center and one repaired tear in the upper portion of the left edge. There are a few spots of faint, darker toned discoloration to the right of the central tree, in the sky. There is some surface dirt. There are some handling marks and creases. The work presents well.
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