Raoul Dufy

Projet pour Le Palais des Lumières

细节

Raoul Dufy
Projet pour Le Palais des Lumières
signed 'Raoul Dufy' (lower right)
gouache, pen and India ink and pencil on joined paper squared for transfer
19½ x 47 in. (49.5 x 119.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1910

来源

Henri Giraud, Paris (1937).
Anon. (by descent from the above); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 November 2003, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

拍品专文

Fanny Guillon-Laffaille will include this work in her forthcoming supplement to the Raoul Dufy catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches, et pastels.

The present gouache is the preliminary study for the mural painting La Fée Electricité (Laffaille nos. 1736-1742; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) which Dufy was commissioned to execute for the Pavilion de l'Electricité (also known as the Palais de la Lumière) at the 1937 Paris Exposition. Dufy's massive composition, the largest painting in the world, celebrated the union of nature and technology.