Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 55
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy
French, 1877 - 1953
La Relève de la Garde au Palais de Saint James, 1937
Gouache and watercolour on paper
19¾ x 25½ inches / 50 x 65 cm
Signed and inscribed lower centre: St James Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy was a keen observer of
public ceremony and entertainment,
painting occasions such as regattas,
horse races and orchestral recitals.
In the present work, we see the
Changing of the Guard at St James’s
Palace conveyed using the artist’s
characteristic methods, which
involved dividing the canvas or page
into flat patches of colour and then
adding outlines to indicate detail
such as human figures, costume or
architectural features.
Provenance
Dr Roudinesco, Paris
Acquired from the above by the family of the previous owner
Exhibited
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Raoul Dufy, 1877-1953, no. 118,
illustrated
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Toulouse-Lautrec à Chagall, 1956, no. 45
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune-Dauberville, Chefs-d’oeuvre de Raoul Dufy,
1959, no. 102, illustrated on the poster for the exhibition
Cologne, Dom Galleri, Gemälde aus Pariser Privatbesitz (Bonnard bis de
Staël), May 1962
Literature
L’Amour de l’Art, Paris, 1953, p. 46
Marcel Brion, Raoul Dufy, Paintings and Watercolours, London, 1959,
illustrated pl. 60
Fanny Guillon-Laiffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles,
gouaches et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 1981, no. 752, illustrated pl. 275
"What I wish to show when I
paint is the way I see things with
my eyes and in my heart."
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