Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)

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Details

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
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signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower center)
gouache and watercolor over pencil on joined paper laid down on board
19 ½ x 36 ¼ in. (49.6 x 92.1 cm.)
Painted in 1950

Provenance

Louis Carré Gallery, New York.
Gilbert Miller, New York (by 1951).
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 28 June 1972, lot 34.
Private collection, Vermont (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 14 November 1996, lot 298.
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York.
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above).
Acquired by the present owner, 1997.

Literature

F. Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1982, vol. II, p. 225, no. 1686 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Louis Carré Gallery; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Gallery; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Chicago, The Arts Club, Raoul Dufy, Exhibition of Work in the USA, January-November 1951, various nos.

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Lot Essay

This work is a study for the large-scale backdrop in the collection of The Metropolitan Opera House designed for the 1950-1951 production of L'Invitation au Château (Ring Around the Moon) by playwright Jean Anouilh.

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