Elegant Women at the Trifle

Prints and Drawings

1919/20

Raoul Dufy
French, 1877–1953

Painter and printmaker Raoul Dufy was also a skilled textile designer. He established a clothprinting workshop in 1910 and designed textiles for the fabric firm Bianchini-Férier until 1928. Dufy was mesmerized by the racetrack, where the fashion, speed, and members of high society intermingled with jockeys and horses, all of which are visible in this drawing. That this design is painted in only a few colors indicates that it may have been intended for one of his textile patterns.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Raoul Dufy
Title: Elegant Women at the Trifle
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.: Made 1919–1920
Medium: Gouache, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on gray board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "Rauol [sic] Dufy"
Dimensions: 65.7 × 50 cm (25 7/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.931
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 160, cat. 113 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 160, cat. 113 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Gerard Oury, Paris. Sold, Christie’s, London, June 28, 1994, lot 341, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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