
RAOUL DUFY(1877-1953)L'entrée du jardin
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RAOUL DUFY (1877-1953)
signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower right)
oil on canvas
66 x 81.8cm (26 x 32 3/16in).
Painted in 1923
Footnotes
Provenance
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Jacques Spreiregen Collection, Monaco (acquired by April 1956); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1977, lot 274.
Private collection, South Africa (acquired at the above sale).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Jardins de France, Summer 1943, no. 326.
Swansea, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Some Modern French Paintings and Drawings, 23 April – 26 May 1956, no. 24 (later travelled to Aberystwyth and Cardiff).
Literature
M. Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Vol. II, Geneva, 1973, no. 618 (illustrated p. 173).