Sale 03PT02 | Lot 39

Raoul Dufy French, 1877-1954 LANGRES

Catalogue: Modern & Contemporary and European & American Paintings
Raoul Dufy French, 1877-1954 LANGRES

Lot Details

Lot 39
Raoul Dufy French, 1877-1954 LANGRES
French, 1877-1954
LANGRES
Signed Raoul Dufy (lc)
Oil on canvas
Painted in 1935
32 x 39 5/8 inches (81.3 x 100.6 cm.)
Provenance:
Lou Cosyn, Brussels
Polfleet collection, Audenarde
Galerie Kleinmann
Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1962
Exhibitions:
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Dufy dans les Collections Belges, November 1943, no. 22, as Paysage

Literature:
Maurice Laffaille, Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Peint, volume III, Geneva, 1976, no.1019, illus. p.72
Dufy was working on several landscapes of Langres in Burgundy in the mid 1930s. This is the largest of the group, depicting a bird's-eye view of the town, river, train, bridges and a horse-drawn cart, with the artist's easel in the center of the canvas.

Estate of James E. Robison

Estimate: $140,000 - $180,000
Sold for $158,700 (includes buyer's premium)

Additional Notes & Condition Report

good condition; unrelined; good under black light examination; few tiny spots of paint loss near frame upper right, top center and center right; some craquelure center right


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Estimate: $140,000 - $180,000
Sold for $158,700 (includes buyer's premium)

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Modern & Contemporary and European & American Paintings

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