About the Artwork
The Spirit of Electricity
1936/1937
Raoul Dufy
1877 - 1953
French
Unknown
Watercolor, gouache on paper mounted on canvas
Overall: 38 1/2 x 235 in. (97.8 x 596.9 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
1999.119.C
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Markings
Signed and dated, bottom center: Raoul Dufy pinxit 1937
Provenance
the artist, Raoul Dufy (Guillon-Lafaille #1909-1913)
June 15, 1954, sale (Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France) lot 94. La Palme (Paris, France). Nathan Cummings (New York, New York, USA). Mrs. Robert B. Mayer with her son, Robert N. Mayer, and daughter, Ruth M. Durchslag (Chicago, Illinois, USA). Consolidate Foods, later Sara Lee Corporation (Downers Grove, Illinois, USA)
1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Raoul Dufy, The Spirit of Electricity, 1936/1937, watercolor, gouache on paper mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999.119.C.
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