John Quinn, New York (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, October 26, 1926)
John Boulton, Venezuela (sold: Christie’s, London, December 3, 1965, lot 9)
The Mayor Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection
Private Collection (sold: Cannes, December 30, 2000)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners

Gaston Diehl, "Collection of John Bolton," El Arte Moderno en Caracas, September 1959, no. 16, illustrated
Maurice Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Geneva, 1973, vol. 1, no. 253, illustrated p. 216

While painting with Braque at L'Estaque in 1908, Dufy began moving away from the bright tones of his Fauve period and towards a more volumetric conception in space. The strong palette and striking composition L'Atelier de la Rue Séguier evoke the dialogue between the two movements as Dufy finds his way. For him, Cubism represented an attempt to bring coherence to painting in a manner suggested by Cézanne: "We have the tree, the bench, the house, but what interests me, the most difficult thing is what surrounds these objects. How are we to hold everything together? Nobody has done it like Cézanne" (quoted in D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, New York , 1989, pp. 40-41).