Lot 400
  • 400

RAOUL DUFY | Mozart

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Mozart
  • signed Raoul Dufy (lower centre)
  • oil on canvas
  • 33.2 by 41.1cm., 13 by 16 1/4 in.
  • Painted in 1950.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1955)
Galerie Tamenaga, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990

Exhibited

New York, Perls Galleries, Dufy, 1955, no. 27

Literature

Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Geneva, 1977, vol. IV, no. 1503, illustrated p. 86

Condition

The canvas is not lined and UV examination reveals no signs of retouching. There are a few fly spots in places, which could be removed, and the canvas is slightly undulating in the upper left quadrant. This work is in overall very good condition.
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