Lot 290
  • 290

RAOUL DUFY | Marrakech

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Marrakech
  • signed Raoul Dufy (lower right)
  • watercolour on paper
  • 50,8 x 66 cm; 20 x 26 in.

Provenance

Galerie Berheim-Jeune, Paris
Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris
Private collection, France
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Marcelle Berr de Turique, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1930, illustrated p. 206
Fanny Guillon-Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 356, illustrated p. 128

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount along all four edges. All edges are deckled. There are three repaired tears (the larger of which is approx. 1 cm long) to the left part of the upper edge and another smaller repaired tear (approx. 0,4 cm long) to the right part of the lower edge (not visible when framed). There are small paper loss to the upper part of the left edge and to the lower left corner. There are glue remnants to the extreme edges. The sheet is light stained and there are a few scattered dots of foxing. This work is in overall good condition.
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