Details
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Feu d'artifice
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
19¾ x 26 in. (50.2 x 66 cm.)
Painted in 1950
Provenance
Louis Carré Gallery, New York.
Kathryn Bache Miller, New York; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 19 April 1980, lot 1111.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum, Raoul Dufy, May-September 1954, p. 42, no. 167.

Lot Essay

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille will include this gouache in her forthcoming supplement to the Dufy catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels.

This gouache was executed as a stage design for Jean Anouilh's play, Ring Around the Moon, that was produced by Gilbert Miller in New York in 1950.

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