RAOUL DUFY | Portrait du poète François Berthault

François Berthault, Paris (a gift from the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Rübel, New York (acquired by 1954)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (a gift from the above in 1954 and sold: Christie's, New York, November 6, 2014, lot 344)
Acquired at the above sale

New York, Perls Galleries, Raoul Dufy, 1955, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions, Painting & Sculpture, 1955-56, n.n.
Winston-Salem, The Arts Council & traveling, Modern Portraits, 1956-57, n.n.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Portraits from the Museum Collection, 1960
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Portraits from The Museum of Modern Art, 1960-61, n.n.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in a Changing World, 1884-1964, Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, 1966-68, n.n.

Maurice Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. III, Geneva, 1976, no. 1337, illustrated p. 337

The sheet has been laid on canvas. There are a few minor losses to the sheet in the upper right corner and to the center right of the upper edge. There is a repaired horizontal tear running unevenly to the right of the sitter's neck, a smaller repaired tear to the left and a few minor repaired tears in places elsewhere. There is a pinhole loss and a small area of slightly raised craquelure above the sitter's head to the left. The corners of the support are slightly taut and a stretcher bar mark running vertically to the right of center. There is a layer of surface dust. Examination under UV light reveals a small area of raised craquleure to the right of the sitter's head with associated inpainting. There is a spot and a few scattered strokes of inpainting in the figure's forehead and a spot of inpainting in the upper left quadrant.
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