Le Bouquet de Roses (Still Life with Roses in a Vase)
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Gouache and watercolour over pencil on paper
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65 x 50 cm
(25.6 x 19.7 in) - Signed lower centre Raoul Dufy
- Impressionist
provenance
Anonymous sale, Hôtel George V, Paris, 13 June 1974, lot Q. Galerie Louis Carré & Co., Paris, 1981. Nathan Bernstein & Co., New York. Sir Rex and Lady Harrison, London (acquired from the above). Estate sale, Christie’s New York, 7 November 2001, lot 471.
exhibited
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré & Co., Raoul Dufy Aquarelles, 1981, no.6.
literature
F.Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Paris, 1982, vol.II, p.84, no.1281 (illustrated; illustrated again in colour, pl.XXXV).
more about Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
b. 03.06.1877
Le Havre, France
d. 23.03.1953
Forcalquier, France
Le Havre, France
d. 23.03.1953
Forcalquier, France
Raoul Dufy was born on the 3rd of June, 1877 in the French harbor town of Le Havre. Born in a family with 9 children, Dufy had to quit school at the age of 14 to work as a bookkeeper at a coffee-importing company. In 1895 he started taking art classes at night school at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Le Havre, his teacher was Charles Lhullier. The early work of Dufy is strongly impression . . .
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