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Raoul Dufy

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1906

East Building, Mezzanine - Gallery 217B

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54 x 64.8 cm (21 1/4 x 25 1/2 in.)

framed: 72.1 x 83.2 x 6.7 cm (28 3/8 x 32 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney

Accession Number

1998.74.3

Artists / Makers

Raoul Dufy (painter) French, 1877 - 1953

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Inscription

lower left: R. Dufy

Provenance

Paris art market; probably (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 March 1945, no. 41., repro.).[1] (Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris); purchased 18 July 1950 through John Rewald by Mrs. John Hay Whitney as a gift for her husband, New York;[2] gift 1998 to NGA.

[1]The 1960 Tate exhibition of the Whitney collection confused the provenance of this picture with one by the same title which was offered at the Hôtel Drouot, 27 February 1932, no. 62. The reproduction published in that sales catalogue confirms that it was not the Whitney painting. The reproduction published in the 5 March 1945 sales catalogue, however, appears to be Whitney painting.

[2]Acquisition information according to Whitney records now in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Drouot, Hôtel
Galerie Dina Vierny
Rewald, John
Whitney, John Hay
Whitney, John Hay, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1952: Les Fauves, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto, 1952-1953, no. 48, repro.

1960: The John Hay Whitney Collection, Tate Gallery, London, 1960-1961, no. 24, repro.

1978: Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 41, repro.

1983: The John Hay Whitney Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 45, repro.

1998: Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no catalogue.

1999: Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; New Orleans Museum of Art; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, 1999-2000, no. 8, repro. (not shown in San Antonio).

2004: Fauve Painting from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no catalogue.

2013: Matisse and the Fauves, Albertina, Vienna, 2013-2014, no. 67, repro.

2014: Matisse and Friends: Selected Masterworks from the National Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, 2014-2015, no catalogue.

2019: Raoul Dufy au Havre [Raoul Dufy in Le Havre], Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, 2019.

Bibliography

1956: Rewald, John. "French Paintings in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney." The Connoisseur 134, no. 552 (April 1956):138, repro.

1962: Crespelle, Jean-Paul. Les Fauves. Neuchâtel, 1962: plate 40

1972: Laffaille, Maurice. Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. 4 vols. and supplements. Geneva, 1972-1977:I:no. 136, repro.