Paddock à Ascot

Details

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Paddock à Ascot
signed and inscribed 'Raoul Dufy Ascot' (lower right)
gouache and watercolor on paper
19 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (50.4 x 65.9 cm.)

Provenance

Galerie Kaethe Perls, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1937).
Mary Lewis, New York (acquired from the above, October 1937).
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, March 1950).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, June 1950.

Literature

F. Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1981, vol. I, p. 351, no. 958 (illustrated).
M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, p. 291, no. 116 (illustrated in color, p. 290).

Exhibited

New York, Perls Galleries, For the Young Collector, October-November 1937.

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Lot Essay

"In 1950, on the recommendation of Alfred Barr, I visited the Perls Galleries to look for paintings by contemporary Latin American artists. While I was there, I happened to see this Dufy painting of Ascot. I asked Peggy to look at it, and we decided to buy it...Today, it hangs in our bedroom at Ringing Point." —David Rockefeller

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