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RAOUL DUFY Gouache Impressionism Design

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RAOUL DUFY Gouache Impressionism Design
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RAOUL DUFY
Le Havre 1877 - 1953 Forcalquier (French)
Flower's Design
Original Gouache Painting
Title : Flowers Design.
Technique : Original Gouache, Ink and Pencil and Collage painting on paper.
Paper size : 75 X 52,5 cm / 29.5 X 20.7 inch.
Additional Information : This is an Original work by Raoul Dufy.
Each one of the flowers is painted in Gouache and Ink on a round paper that is glued to the sheet.
The work is numbered (probably a reference number) in blue pencil "51394".
This is a fabric or a wallpaper design that was designed and created by Raoul Dufy himself for Bianchini Ferrier.
Bianchini Ferrier, based in Lyon, France, was recognised as the leading printing company to couturiers. Clients included Poiret, Vionnet, Chanel, Schiaperelli, and Dior. The company employed top artists, most famously Raoul Dufy.
Provenance :
1. This drawing will be sold with a fully detailed and illustrated Cetificate of Authenticity by the only expert of Raoul Dufy works - Mrs. Fanny Guillon-Laffaille dated 2.7.2001.
2. The work will be also included in the forthcoming "Catalogue raisonne des projets de tissus de Raoul Dufy" being prepered by Mrs. Fanny Guillon-Laffaille.
3. The Archive of Bianchini Férier.
4. Christies South Kensington, London, "Bianchini Férier Archive & a collection of Peter Todd Mitchell designs", sale: TEX-9554 , 15th of January 2003, lot No. 419.
Condition : Tears in the margins, one horizontal foldin the upper part, surface dirt and stains, handling marks.