Le tuba intempestif

Details

Jean Dufy (1888-1964)
Le tuba intempestif
signed ‘Jean Dufy’ (lower right)
oil and gouache on paper laid down on canvas
19 3/8 x 25 3/8 in. (49.4 x 64.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1948-1950

Provenance

Sarah Wood Armour, Chicago, by whom acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Jacques Bailly will include this work in the forthcoming third volume of his Jean Dufy catalogue raisonné.

Jean Dufy depicts Les Clowns Musiciens as a lively orchestra playing in the midst of frivolities, with vibrant colours and a very dynamic composition.

The painting was previously owned by Sarah Wood Armour, a devoted patron of the world renowned Lyric Opera, board member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Ravina Music Festival.

This charismatic painting demonstrates the joys affiliated with live music that the late owner had been so devoted to throughout her entire life.

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