after Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953), Tournon canvas, Bianchini Fé - Lot 368

after Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953), Tournon canvas, Bianchini Férier, L'Afrique, (BF 8014), circa 1925, bis background, black decoration of a boat amid exotic fruits. This is another version of Tournon's painting Le Voyage aux Iles ou Le Bal Antillais, circa 1912, where the dancers have disappeared. It comes from the villa Itxasgoïty, in Biarritz, built for Alexandre Stavisky (1886 - 1934), abandoned, fallen into ruin and destroyed in the 1970s. Many of these Tournon canvases were commissioned by Paul Poiret from Raoul Dufy. Raoul Dufy, Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1999, p. 189, no. 114, L'Afrique (BF 8014), printed in red in 1918. - Fanny Guillon Lafaille, Raoul Dufy, Projets de Tissus, pp. 10 & 11, Fruits de l'Afrique, gouache on paper, project for a Tournon canvas. Dora Perez Tibi, Raoul Dufy, La Passion des Tissus, p. 48, The West Indian Ball To be compared with Musée d'Art /Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1977, Raoul Dufy créateur d'Etoffes, N° 9, Bateaux des Iles (for a shawl) ; 1, 07 x 0, 57 m