The Basin at Deauville, 1937

Not on View

Medium

oil on linen

Dimensions

overall: 81.5 x 100.3 cm (32 1/16 x 39 1/2 in.)

framed: 104.1 x 122.9 x 5.7 cm (41 x 48 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.32

Artists / Makers

Raoul Dufy (artist) French, 1877 - 1953

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Inscription

lower left: Raoul Dufy

Provenance

Estate of the artist [d. 1953], Paris;[1] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., London and New York); sold 3 December 1962 to Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[2] bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1] Letters of 8 February 1978 and 22 October 1985 from Wildenstein & Co., Inc., in NGA curatorial files.

[2]] Date according to the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA archives; the invoice was dated 13 April 1962.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1952: Venice XXVI Biennale, 1952, no. 42 as La Darsena a Deauville.

1954: Homage à Raoul Dufy, Societé des Artistes Honfleurais, Ville de Honfleur, 1954, no. 38, no repro.

1957: Dufy, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lyon, 1957, no. 58, no repro.

1983: Raoul Dufy, Hayward Gallery, London, 1983-1984, no. 119.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 184-185, color repro.

1999: Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1999-2010.

2015: Monet to Matisse - On the French Coast, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2015, no. 18, repro.

Bibliography

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 116, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 139, repro.

1997: Van Doren, Lawrence N. Dufy Appreciations, 1997, repro.