Sale 6474
London
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28 June 2001
Price realised
GBP 56,400
Estimate
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) Le bouquet aux arums signed and dedicated 'à Madame Saint Gaudens souvenir de Raoul Dufy' (lower right) gouache and watercolour on paper 26 x 19 5/8in. (66 x 49.3cm.) Executed in 1939
Provenance
Given by the artist to Mrs. Homer Saint-Gaudens, Pittsburgh. Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 20 May 1981, lot 670.
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Literature
F. Guillon-Laffaille, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches, pastels, vol. II, Paris, 1982, no.1313 (illustrated p. 94).
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