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RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953)
Lot 704

RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953)

Livre d'or de Marianne

Closed14 May 2022

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RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953)
Livre d'or de Marianne
signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed 'à Georges Marianne, le Coeur, le Palais et le Ventre de Paris Raoul Dufy Mai 1927' (upper center)
gouache, watercolor and brush and black ink on paper
12 x 17 3⁄8 in. (30.5 x 44 cm.)
Painted in May 1927

George Foundoulakis, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above).
Private collection, Switzerland (1988); sale, Christie's, London, 10 February 2011, lot 244.
Private collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired by the present owner, 2019.

Specialist note

This work was executed in the visitors book of the restaurant Chez Marianne in Le Marais. Jean Cocteau, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, and many others left signed and dedicated drawings. The book included numerous dedications, poems and signatures dating from 1922 through to 1951 including Maurice Chevalier, Jules Massenet, Maurice Rostand, Abel Gance, Jules Romains, Prince Paul of Serbia, Sacha Guitry, Josephine Baker and Mistinguett.