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Elegant Women at the Trifle

A work made of gouache, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on gray board.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of gouache, over graphite, on off-white laid paper, laid down on gray board.

Date:

1919/20

Artist:

Raoul Dufy
French, 1877–1953

About this artwork

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:)

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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

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