View of Fès, 1926

Not on View

Medium

watercolor

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 50.8 x 65.7 cm (20 x 25 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Guillon-Laffaille 1982, no. 366

Accession Number

1963.10.246

Artists / Makers

Raoul Dufy (artist) French, 1877 - 1953

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Raoul Dufy

Provenance

Jean Laroche [1866-1935], Villa Sauge Pourprée, Deauville; (his sale, Paris, 8 December 1928, no. 9); purchased by (Etienne Bignou, Paris) for Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; [1] bequest 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1]Letter from Bignou to Kraushaar dated 11 December 1928 lists the three paintings he bought for Chester Dale at the Laroche sale, Kraushaar Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, Box 12, Folder 34 (Incoming Correspondence).

Associated Names

Bignou, Etienne
Dale, Chester
Drouot, Hôtel
Laroche, Jean

Exhibition History

1943: Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.

Bibliography

1943: Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro.

1963: Dale 1963, [17].

1965: Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 98, repro.

1981: Guillon-Laffaille, Fanny. Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels. 2 vols. Paris: Éditions Louis Carré & Cie., 1981-1982.