Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva
Estate of Mrs Linda Hirsch, USA (sale: Sotheby's, London, 28th June 1995, lot 246)
Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Maître Briest, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 13th December 1997, lot 16
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Pierre Courthion, Raoul Dufy, Geneva, 1951, illustrated pl. 157
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Geneva, 1976, vol. III, no. 1161, illustrated p. 194

The canvas is not lined. There is some minor retouching at the edges, mostly near the upper right and upper left corners, all visible under UV light. This work is in very good condition. Colours: Overall quite accurate but the yellows are more subtle in the orginal.
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The present work is a remarkable example of the bright palette Dufy mastered during the 1940s, with the vivid orange tone of the background forming a dynamic contrast with the pictures on the wall and the open window. Atelier de la rue Jeanne-d'Arc, Nu couché au passant, depicts ✅the first of two studios that Dufy occupied in Perpignan during the 1940s. The theme of the studio as a subject recurs in Dufy's paintings at regular intervals, marking through time and place the various stages in the development of his œuvre.

The series of paintings of the studios at Perpignan, dispersed with views of his studio at Vence, concluded the theme in which Dufy transcribed his familiar universe on to canvas. In the present work, amongst the pictures on the wall, one can recognize a study for a Baigneuse, a subject the artist had treated many times💎 before, most particularly during the period 1911-1919.

Startling in composition as well as in palette, Atelier de la rue Jeanne-d'Arc, Nu couché au passant, presents a wonderful balance of fresh colours injected by lines of speed and precision, imbuing the painting with the beauty and joie de vivre characteristic of the artist's finest work.