The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
1906
Painter, French, 1877 - 1953
East Building Mezzanine, Gallery 217-B
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1998.74.3
Artwork history & notes
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
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, no. 34, repro.
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.
Inscriptions
lower left: R. Dufy
Wikidata ID
Q20190998