RAOUL DUFY | Hommage à Claude Lorrain

Frank Perls Galleries, Beverly Hills
Anatole Litvak, Los Angeles
Private collection, Monte-Carlo
Sale: Tajan, Paris, July 28, 2009, lot 7
Private collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art & Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, 1954, no. 105, illustrated in the catalogue p. 28

Pierre Courthion, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1929, illustrated pl. XXI
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. II, Paris, 1982, no. 1995, illustrated p. 343

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the overmount along the upper edge with tape. Upper, left and lower edges are slightly deckled. There is a minor tear (approx. 0,3 cm) to the lower part of the left edge and a few thin lines of craquelure in places, most predominately to the white gouache. The sheet is light stained with scattered dots of foxing, most predominately to the left part of the composition. Colours appear to have slighty faded. This work is in overall good condition.
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