Live Auction 2889Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper Sale
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Lot 121 PROPERTY OF A TEXAS COLLECTOR

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)

La Mer

Closed6 November 2014

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Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
La Mer
signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower left)
gouache over color lithograph on paper
21 ¼ x 15 in. (54 x 38 cm.)
Painted circa 1929

Private collection, London; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1989, lot 205.
Anon. sale, Phillips, New York, 8 November 1999, lot 67.
William Weston Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille will include this work in the forthcoming supplement to her Raoul Dufy catalogue raisonné.

The present work is a study for the cover of the monograph on the artist by Marcelle Berr de Turique published in 1930.