Lot 167A
  • 167A

JEAN DUFY | Les Moissonneurs

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • After Jean Dufy
  • Les Moissonneurs
  • signed Jean Dufy and dated 1925 (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 47.8 by 63cm., 19 by 25 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1925.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19th December 2014, lot 40
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Jacques Bailly, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre de Jean Dufy, Paris, 2002, vol. I, no. J.199, illustrated p. 172

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is affixed to the overmount with tape in two places at the upper corners. The sheet is time-stained and there are some small spots of foxing in places, primarily to the sky. This work is in overall good condition.
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