About This Artwork
Venus with Seashell, 1925
Gouache on cream wove paper
498 x 650 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Raoul Dufy"
Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1985.484
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4–25 1938, n.p., cat. 39, as Seashell, n.d.
Sarasota, Fla., Ringling Museum of Art, "Raoul Dufy: A Retrospective," December 5, 1978–February 25, 1979, p. 26, cat. 19 (ill.), as Amphitrite, 1926–1927.
Publication History
Pierre Courthion, Raoul Dufy (Paris, 1929), n.p., pl. 18, as Vénus, 1926
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches, et pastels II (Paris, 1982), p. 282, no. 1831 (ill.), as Vénus et coquillage, 1925.
Eleanor Dwight (editor), The Letters of Pauline Palmer: A Great Lady of Chicago’s First Family (New York, 2005), p. 308 (ill.), as Venus with Seashell, 1925.
Ownership History
Mrs. Potter Palmer II (neé Pauline Kohnsaat; 1867–1956), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914–1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917–1984), Sarasota, Fla.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.