LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache and watercolor on paper

Measurements:

19.61 in. (49.80 cm.) (height) by 25.67 in. (65.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'souvenir du 29 Avril 1950 à Madame F. Homburger Raoul Dufy' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Orono, University of Maine, The Freddy and Regina T. Homburger Collection, July - August 1962, no. 20; this exhibition later travelled to Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, September - October 1964. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Selections from the Collection of Freddy and Regina T. Homburger, A Loan Exhibition, April 1971, p. 76, no. 33 (illustrated p. 77); this exhibition later travelled to Augusta, Maine State Museum, August 1971. Sarasota, Florida, Ringling Museum of Art, Raoul Dufy' A Retrospective, December 1978 - February 1979, p. 29, no. 31 (illustrated p. 24). San Antonio, McNay Art Museum, Raoul Dufy, A Retrospective, May - June 1980, no. 55. On loan to the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, November 1991 - June 2002.

Literature:

F. Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 1275, p. 82,(illustrated).

Provenance:

Dr Freddy & Regina T. Homburger, by whom acquired directly from the artist; sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2002, lot 161. Connaught Brown, London. Private collection, Massachusetts, by whom acquired from the above in 2004. Private collection, Philadelphia. Acquired by the present owner in November 2018.