The Spirit of Electricity, 1936/1937

  • Raoul Dufy, French, 1877 - 1953

Watercolor, gouache on paper mounted on canvas

  • Overall: 38 1/2 x 235 in. (97.8 x 596.9 cm)

Gift of Sara Lee Corporation

1999.119.D

the artist, Raoul Dufy (Guillon-Lafaille #1909-1913)

June 15, 1954, sale (Galerie Charpentier, Paris, France) lot 94. La Palme (Paris, France). Nathan Cummings (New York, New York, USA). Mrs. Robert B. Mayer with her son, Robert N. Mayer, and daughter, Ruth M. Durchslag (Chicago, Illinois, USA). Consolidate Foods, later Sara Lee Corporation (Downers Grove, Illinois, USA)

1999-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Raoul Dufy, The Spirit of Electricity, 1936/1937, watercolor, gouache on paper mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999.119.D.