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191 - Jean Dufy
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Jean Dufy Portrait de Lily Dufy 1926 Pastel, pencil and black chalk on machine-made laid paper. 42.2 x 35.8 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Jean Dufy 1926' in ink lower right and with dedication 'à mon ami Giran Max'. - Lightly browned in mat opening and with light-stain; isolated tiny foxing spots in the image. Not recorded by Bailly With a photo-certificate from Jacques Bailly, Paris, dated 30 September 2026 (Certificat N° 5019). The work will be included and illustrated in the forthcoming new catalogue raiosnné. Provenance Private collection, Bavaria A quick yet very sensitive portrait of his 27-year-old wife, Ismérie Louise Coutut, whose nickname was Lily. According to Bailly, only one other portrait of Lily is known to exist (an oil painting from 1927). The dedication is addressed to Dufy’s painter friend Léon Giran-Max, to whom he entrusted a portrait of his wife.
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