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
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