Oil paint on canvas
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Deauville Drying Sails
Purchased 1950
architecture
boat, yacht
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Deauville
France
harbour
leisure and pastimes
places
sail
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
sport
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
yachting
painting oil paint canvas
13 April 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
13 April 2011 – 26 June 2011
2011-06-26
2011-04-13
Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris, France)
2011-04-13
Raoul and Jean Dufy
Loan-out
Deauville, Drying the Sails
support: 464 × 1102 mm
frame: 718 × 1348 × 119 mm
Purchased 1950
<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-deauville-drying-the-sails-n05943" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05943</span></a> </span><b>Deauville, le Séchage des Voiles</b><span> (Deauville, drying the Sails) 1933 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'Raoul Dufy 1933' b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 18 ¼ x 43 3/8 (46.5 x 110.5)</span>
<br/><span>Purchased from the Lefevre Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1950</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Reid and Lefevre, London (purchased from the artist through Bignou, Paris, 1938); George Eumorfopoulos, London; Mrs George Eumorfopoulos, London; Mrs Eumorfopoulos sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1944, lot 66; bt. Reid and Lefevre, London, £200; Mrs S. Kaye, Cookham-on-Thames; with Reid and Lefevre, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Oeuvres Récentes de Raoul Dufy</i><span>, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris, June 1936 (20) as 'Deauville, le Séchage des Voiles'; </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span>, Lefevre Gallery, London, July 1936 (3); </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span>, Bignou Gallery, New York, March-April 1938 (7) as 'Deauville, après les Régates'; </span><i>Oil Paintings and Watercolours by Raoul Dufy</i><span>, Lefevre Gallery, London, May 1938 (5); </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span>, Lefevre Gallery, London, April-May 1950 (11)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Maurice Laffaille, </span><i>Raoul Dufy</i><span> (Geneva 1973), No.860, Vol.2, p.349, repr. as 'Les Voiles au Sec'</span><br/><i>Repr:</i><span> </span><i>Illustrated London News</i><span>, CCXXIII, 24 October 1953, p.663; </span><i>Studio</i><span>, CXLVII, 1954, p.9 in colour </span>
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<p><span>Dufy made nearly a hundred 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 regattas at Deauville and Trouville (Laffaille Nos.807-902), most showing yachts racing or in the harbour, and also painted the yacht and rowing regattas in England at Cowes and Henley. </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, pp.195-6, reproduced p.195</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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architecture boat, yacht cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Deauville France harbour leisure and pastimes places sail sea seascapes and coasts society sport townscape townscapes / man-made features transport: water yachting