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Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
La Baie des Anges à Nice
Details
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
La Baie des Anges à Nice
signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower center)
oil on canvas
23¾ x 28¾ in. (60.4 x 73 cm.)
Painted in Nice, 1926
Provenance
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London.
Carroll Carstairs, New York.
Mrs. Harry B. Spaulding, Buffalo (acquired from the above, 1939).
By descent from the above to the late owner.
Literature
P. Courthion, Raoul Dufy, Paris, 1929, pl. 76 (illustrated). The Bystander, London, 14 December 1938 (illustrated in color). Glasgow Herald, 1 February 1940 (illustrated).
M. Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Geneva, 1973, vol. II, p. 20, no. 430 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Gallery), Raoul Dufy, July 1936, no. 15 (illustrated).
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre Gallery), L'école de Paris, 1938, no. 16 (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Art of our Time, 1939, no. 97 (illustrated).
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Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming Maurice de Vlaminck catalogue raisonné being prepared by Maithé Vallès-Bled and Godlieve de Vlaminck under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.