J.S. Bach

Details

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
J.S. Bach
signed and dedicated 'à Madame et à Monsieur Louis et Charlotte Bergman, Raoul Dufy' (lower left); signed again with the artist's monogram (lower left)
gouache and pen and India ink on paper
19¾ x 24 in. (50.3 x 60.8 cm.)
Executed in 1950

Provenance

Louis and Charlotte Bergman, Jerusalem and New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist in the early 1950s.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Museum of Art, Raoul Dufy 1877 - 1953, May - July 1954, no. 175; this exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, County Museum, July - September 1954.
La Jolla, Museum of Art, Louis and Charlotte Bergman Collection, July - September 1967, no. 4 (illustrated p. 5).

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Fanny Guillon-Laffaille numbered D03-1446 and dated Paris, le 30 janvier 2003. It will be included in her forthcoming supplement to the Catalogue raisonné des dessins de Raoul Dufy.

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