Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), La plage et l’estacade de Trouville

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
La plage et l’estacade de Trouville
signed and dated 'R. DUFY 1905' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (64.8 x 80.9 cm.)
Painted in 1905

Provenance
Mr G. Urion, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 30 May 1927, lot 29.
M. & Mme. André Goldet, Paris.
Seized from the above during the Occupation of Paris, after May 1940.
Perls Galleries, New York (no. 6505), by whom acquired from a 'brocanteur', Paris, 1963.
Mrs Maurice Newton, New York, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 1977, lot 33 (withdrawn).
Restituted to the heirs of M. & Mme. André Goldet.
Wildenstein Galleries, Paris.
Patrick Rossini, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Literature
M. Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Geneva, 1972, no. 110, p. 103 (illustrated).
S. Whitfield, Fauvism, London, 1996, no. 107, p. 211 (illustrated n.p.).

Exhibited
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, De Cézanne à Picasso, June - October 1985, no. 56, pp. 161-162 (illustrated p. 162 & pl. 56).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Raoul Dufy, January - June 1997, no. 3, pp. 23 & 191 (illustrated p. 23).
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Raoul Dufy, January - April 1999, no. 13, p. 62 (illustrated p. 63); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Museu Picasso, April - July 1999.