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Raoul Dufy

Music and the Pink Violin, 1952

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 60 x 72.7 cm (23 5/8 x 28 5/8 in.)

framed: 81.9 x 94.9 x 5.3 cm (32 1/4 x 37 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1985.64.14

Artists / Makers

Raoul Dufy (artist) French, 1877 - 1953

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Inscription

upper left reverse: Raoul Dufy

Provenance

(Wildenstein and Co., London, New York and Paris), by 1961; sold 1962 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1985 to NGA.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1986: Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist.

1989: Extended loan for use by Secretary Robert Mosbacher, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1989-1993.

1993: Extended loan for use by Secretary Ron Brown, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1993-1997.

1997: Extended loan for use by Secretary William M. Daley, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1997-1999.

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. 56, repro.

2008: Raoul Dufy Le plaisir, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2008-2009, no. 118, repro.

2015: Raoul Dufy. Exterior to Interior, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2015, no. 92, repro.

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