Lot 292
  • 292

RAOUL DUFY | Nature morte aux fleurs

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Raoul Dufy
  • Nature morte aux fleurs
  • gouache on paper
  • 50 x 30,1 cm; 19 5/8 x 11 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1923-24.

Provenance

Private collection, France (acquired in the 1960s)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and affixed to the mount at all four corners with transparent plastics corners. The upper, left and lower edges are deckled. There is a small crease running diagonnally across the lower left corner and a few vertical creases, with associated minor paint losses, most predominately in the blue to the right part of the composition. The sheet is light stained. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work which will be included in her forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonné of Watercolors, Gouaches and Pastels currently in preparation.