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JEAN DUFY Place de Village.
Watercolor on cream wove paper, 1925. 605x481 mm; 23 7/8x19 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Jean Dufy: Catalogue Raisonné currently in preparation by Jacques Bailly, Paris; with a photo certificate of authenticity signed by Bailly and dated May 2, 2018.
Dufy (1888-1964) was born into an artistic family in Le Havre; his older brother, Raoul Dufy (see lot 482), was a teacher at l'École des Beaux Arts where Jean was a student before both decided to move on to greater opportunities. Between 1910 and 1914, Dufy balanced his studio practice with military service, stationed in different areas of France with intermittent stints in Paris, where he became enmeshed in the circle of Derain, Braque, Picasso and Apollinaire. Dufy settled in Montmartre, experimenting the avant-garde in his work by combining the Fauve's vibrant color palette with Cubist spatial sensibilities, as demonstrated in the current lot.
