Lot Essay
This gouache is a study for a curtain (coll. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) of the 1950-1951 production of playwright Jean Anouilh's L'Invitation au Château, known in English as Ring Around the Moon.
Baccarat (Projet pour le rideau de L'Invitation au Château)
Details
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Baccarat (Projet pour le rideau de L'Invitation au Château)
signed bottom center 'Raoul Dufy'
watercolor and gouache over pencil on joined paper laid down by the artist on board
19 3/8 x 36 1/8in. (49.2 x 91.8cm.)
Painted in New York, 1950
Baccarat (Projet pour le rideau de L'Invitation au Château)
signed bottom center 'Raoul Dufy'
watercolor and gouache over pencil on joined paper laid down by the artist on board
19 3/8 x 36 1/8in. (49.2 x 91.8cm.)
Painted in New York, 1950
Provenance
Louis Carré Gallery, New York
Gilbert Miller, New York
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1972, lot 34 (acquired by the family of the present owner)
Gilbert Miller, New York
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1972, lot 34 (acquired by the family of the present owner)
Literature
F. Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1982, vol. II, no. 1686 (illustrated, p. 225)
Exhibited
New York, Louis Carré Gallery, Raoul Dufy, Jan.-Feb., 1951, no. 27
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1951, no. 24
Chicago, The Arts Club, Raoul Dufy, Impressions of America, Oct.- Nov., 1951, no. 23
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1951, no. 24
Chicago, The Arts Club, Raoul Dufy, Impressions of America, Oct.- Nov., 1951, no. 23