Regatta à Sainte address or Regattas Sainte-Adresse / race in Le Havre / La mer / The Sea / Regatta in Saint Addresse
This image is one of an extensive series of marine landscapes, Dufy painted in the early 1920s on the north coast of France . There are thus numerous marine and coastal views from this time, the boat regatta and marine views of Saint-Addresse were often repeated motifs.
Designation front bottom right: Raoul Dufy
Designation back / stand area: Canvas bottom left: round stamp (red) "Douane .."
Stretcher top center, pencil upside down: Raoul Dufy
Stretcher top right: G20 sticker
Stretcher top left: torn sticker Gallery Drouant-David, Paris
Stretcher top left: Sticker Art Customs Agency Arthur Lenars & Cie with handwritten Note "Ber/135"
Stretcher bottom left: sticker Gallery Drouant-David, Paris, scraped off caption
Stretcher center bar above, handwritten, blue: F.D
Stretcher ridge center: sticker, blackened by discolored glue, with handwritten designation "40/Raoul Dufy/La Mer" and stamp "Agence Martime GUERIN & Cie / 31 Rue de Paradis - PARIS
Stretcher center bar below: label with handwritten Marked "No. 308"
[earliest 1942] Gallery Drouant-David, Paris; Privately owned Belgium;
to 1957-58 Galerie Beyeler, Basel, sold to Alex Vömel;
1958 Galerie Alex Vömel, Dusseldorf; 1958 acquired by the gallery Vömel, Dusseldorf, for the gallery of the 20th century, Berlin; since 1968, National Gallery, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Senatsverwalttung für Kultur und Europa
Referat Grundsatz und Recht
– II A Mo -
Brunnenstraße 188/190
10119 Berlin
Germany