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Olive Trees by Golfe Juan
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1936
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Olive Trees by the Golfe Juan
support: 508 × 660 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1936
<p><b>Raoul Dufy</b><span> 1877-1953 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dufy-olive-trees-by-the-golfe-juan-n04850" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04850</span></a> </span><b>Oliviers au Golfe Juan</b><span> (Olive Trees by the Golfe Juan) </span><i>c.</i><span>1927 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Raoul Dufy' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Watercolour on paper, 20 x 26 (50.5 x 66)</span>
<br/><span>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1936</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With St George's Gallery, London (purchased in Paris); Miss A.F. Brown, London, 1928; CAS 1936</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>French Water-Colours</i><span>, St George's Gallery, London, October 1928 (26) as 'Oliviers au Golfe Juan'; </span><i>Acquisitions of the CAS</i><span>, Tate Gallery, September-October 1946 (102a)</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Russell, </span><i>From Sickert to 1948</i><span> (London 1948), pl.42; Alfred Werner, </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span> (London 1970), p.28 </span>
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<p><span>When Dufy was shown a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of this work in 1951, he inscribed it on the back 'Environs de Vallauris | Alpes Maritimes | vers 1927' (near Vallauris, Alpes Maritimes, about 1927). Vallauris is situated on a hill about a mile and a half from the Golfe Juan. </span>
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<p><span>Maurice Laffaille in the second volume of his catalogue raisonné, </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span> (Geneva 1973), lists and reproduces eight oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the Golfe Juan (Nos.474-82), all said to have been painted in 1927, and seven of Vallauris (Nos.483-9): four as painted in 1927 and one each as painted in 1926, 1928 and 1929. However none of these shows quite the same view as this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>. He adds (in a letter of 3 October 1975) that there are also at least ten other watercolours of the region of the Golfe Juan, all dating between 1923 and 1927. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.195, reproduced p.195 </span>
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