72 Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) ‘Etude pour la Fée Electricité, Blaise Pascal’ signed ‘Raoul Dufy’ (lower right) watercolour, ink and pencil, heightened in white, on paper, 63x42 cm
73 Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) ‘Les Arums’ signed ‘Raoul Dufy’ (lower right) watercolour on paper, 64,5x50 cm
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Executed in 1937.
Exhibited: -Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘Raoul Dufy’, June-September 1956, no. 74. -Paris, Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, ‘Chefs-d’oeuvre de Raoul Dufy’, April-July 1959, no. 64. Literature: -Claude Roger-Marx, ‘Raoul Dufy’, Paris 1950, ill. no. 1. -Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, ‘Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, gouaches’, Vol. II, Paris 1982, ill. p. 92, no. 1307, as: ‘Les arums’.
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Literature: -Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, ‘Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels’, Vol. II, Paris 1982, ill. p. 320, no. 1936, as: ‘Etude pour la Fée Electricité, Blaise Pascal’. Provenance: -Private collection, France. -Auction, Millon & Associés, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 27 March 2007, lot 274. -With Bruijstens Modern Art, Amsterdam, November 2010, where acquired by the present owner. This is a preparatory study by Raoul Dufy for his celebrated mural ‘La Fée Électricité’, commissioned by the Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d’Électricité for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris. The monumental work, now housed at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, celebrates the history and achievements of science through portraits of pioneering figures. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher known for his contributions to probability theory, fluid mechanics, and the invention of one of the earliest mechanical calculators.
Provenance: -Collection Mrs Guiraud, Paris. -With Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
-Auction, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 3 December 1975, lot 5. -Auction, Péron-Champin, Melun, 5 December 1998, lot 20. -With Kunsthandel Frans Jacobs, Amsterdam, April 2001 (label attached to the reverse), where acquired by the present owner.
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