*Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) [FRANCE] Le Havre pier, circa 1907 Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. 38 x 46 cm Provenance : - Gustave Fayet, France - Paris, Piasa sale, Paris, June 18, 2004, lot 26 - Purchased at the above sale by the current owner Exhibition : Béziers, Musée de Béziers, Exhibition of private collections, 1969, n°102. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, dated June 28, 2004, numbered P04-447, indicating that it will be included in her second supplement to the Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Raoul Dufy.

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