Deauville Racetrack
Framed: 34 x 40 1/4 inches (86.36 x 102.24 cm)
Possibly Recent Works by Raoul Dufy, Valentine Gallery, New York, November 14-December 7, 1929, no. 15.
Oils, Watercolours and Drawings by André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Raoul Dufy, Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, October 14-November 1, 1947, no. 9.
Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, San Francisco Museum of Art, May 11-July 4, 1954, no. 42; Los Angeles County Museum, July 14-September 12, 1954.
Homage to Raoul Dufy, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, May 18-June 10, 196-.
Raoul Dufy, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, June 1-30, 1966.
Raoul Dufy, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, May 4-June 29, 1980, no. 19.
In cheerful colors and quickly sketched figures, Raoul Dufy captured the lively spirit of the Deauville Racetrack. Jockeys atop sleek horses meander through the crowd of fashionably dressed men and women enjoying a perfect day in the park behind the track.
Located in Normandy, on the northwest coast of France, the delightful beachside Deauville attracted wealthy visitors. Easy train travel from Paris made it a readily accessed destination.
Germaine Lecomte, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France;
With Bignou Gallery, New York [1];
With Carstairs Gallery, New York, by October 14, 1947;
With Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, by 1953;
Purchased from Dalzell Hatfield by Inez Grant Parker (1887-1972), La Jolla, CA, and Earle Grant (1890-1971), San Diego, CA, by April 15, 1953;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
NOTES:
[1] Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York, Bignou Gallery Album 9, Raoul Dufy, copies in NAMA curatorial files. According to Susan Chore, Associate Archivist, The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, February 1, 2017, NAMA curatorial files, a photograph of the painting appears in the Bignou Gallery album, but without any accompanying documentation.
Possibly Recent Works by Raoul Dufy, exh. cat. (New York: Valentine Gallery, 1929), unpaginated.
Oils, Watercolours and Drawings by André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Raoul Dufy, exh. cat. (New York: Carroll Carstairs Gallery, 1947), unpaginated, (repro.).
Raoul Dufy 1877-1953, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1954), 42, (repro).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 146, (repro.).
Homage to Raoul Dufy, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 196-), unpaginated, (repro.).
Raoul Dufy, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, 1966), unpaginated, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 202, (repro.).
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné l’oeuvre peint 3 (Geneva: Éditions Motte, 1976), no. 1259, p. 279, (repro.).
Raoul Dufy, exh. cat. (San Antonio, TX: McNay Art Institute, 1980), unpaginated, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 208, (repro.).
Catherine Futter et al., Bloch Galleries: Highlights from the Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 126, (repro.).
