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Property from a Private East Coast Collection

Raoul Dufy

Le Théâtre grec à Taormina

Lot closes

February 27, 05:49 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Starting Bid

24,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private East Coast Collection

Raoul Dufy 

1877 - 1953  

 

Le Théâtre grec à Taormina 

signed Raoul Dufy and dated 1922 (lower right) 

oil on canvas  

18 ¼ by 21 ½ in.  

46.4 by 54.6 cm.  

Executed in 1922. 

Nico Mazaraki, Vence 

Palais Galléria, Paris, 5 June 1970, lot 15 

Sotheby's, London, 5 April 1978, lot 63 

Christie's, New York, 13 May 1999, lot 247 

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Geneva, 1976, no. 591, pp. 150-51, illustrated in color  

Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Hommage à Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 17 (titled Taormina

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Hommage à Raoul Dufy, 1954, no. 20