Venus with Seashell

Prints and Drawings

1925

Raoul Dufy
French, 1877-1953

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Raoul Dufy
Title: Venus with Seashell
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1925–1953
Medium: Gouache on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Raoul Dufy"
Dimensions: 49.8 × 65 cm (19 5/8 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer
Reference Number: 1985.484
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.

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.

Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née 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.

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