Le violon bleu

Details

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Le violon bleu
signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower right), inscribed 'à Luigi' (lower center)
oil on canvas
9½ x 13 in. (24.2 x 33 cm.)
Painted circa 1950

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the late owner.

Literature

M. Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Geneva, 1977, vol. IV, p. 99, no. 1523 (illustrated).

Exhibited

San Francisco Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum, Raoul Dufy, May-September 1954, p. 40, no. 72 (dated 1943).
La Jolla Museum of Art, Louis and Charlotte Bergman Collection,
July-September 1967, no. 13 (dated 1945).

Lot Essay

During the 1940s and early 1950s Dufy painted a series of orchestral concerts and hommages to Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy, his favorite composers. The tribute to the composer consisted of a musical instrument, usually a violin or piano, set out on a table, surmounted by a piece of sheet music. The present work expresses Dufy's fondness for the music of the 18th century, represented jointly by the violin and the bottom part of the rococo frame of the large mirror in the main room of Dufy's studio in Perpignan.

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