André Dunoyer de Segonzac

The Road from Grimaud

1937

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Artist: André Dunoyer de Segonzac 1884–1974
Original title: La Route de Grimaud
Medium: Ink and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 495 x 718 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1939
Reference: N05043

Catalogue entry

André Dunoyer de Segonzac 1884-1974

N05043 La Route de Grimaud (The Road from Grimaud) 1937

Inscribed 'A. Dunoyer de Segonzac' b.r.
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 19 1/2 x 28 1/4 (49.5 x 71.5)
Purchased from Percy Moore Turner through the Wildenstein Gallery (Courtauld Fund) with the aid of the CAS 1939
Prov: Percy Moore Turner, London (purchased from the artist for his private collection)
Exh: The Graphic Art of Dunoyer de Segonzac, Wildenstein Gallery, London, April-May 1939 (84), dated 1937
Repr: CAS Report 1938-9 (London 1940), facing p.11; Graham Reynolds, A Concise History of Watercolours (London 1971), pl.141

The artist wrote (12 August 1955) that this watercolour was executed in the Massif des Maures in Provence. The road runs from Grimaud to Collobrière (Var).

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.198, reproduced p.198