[Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1927; stock no. 24,927; purchased on May 3, 1927 from the artist; sold on May 13, 1927]; [possibly Valentine Gallery, New York, until 1928; sold on November 18, 1928 to Wetmore]; possibly Edith Wetmore (1928–31; sold in 1931 to Valentine); [Valentine Gallery, New York, possibly 1931–34; stock no. 423; sold on June 1, 1934, for $600, to de Groot]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1934–d. 1967; on extended loan to MMA, 1936–42; on extended loan to the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., 1942–56; on extended loan to MMA, 1956–67; her bequest to MMA)
New York. Valentine Gallery. "Recent Works by Raoul Dufy," November 14–December 7, 1929, no. 13 (as "Promenade des anglais, Nice") [possibly this picture].
New York. Perls Galleries. "Masterpieces from the Collection of Adelaide Milton de Groot," April 14–May 3, 1958, no. 18 (as "Vue de Nice").
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Masterpieces from the Adelaide Milton de Groot Collection," December 2, 1958–March 1, 1959, no. 11 (as "View of Nice," 1929).
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. "Inventive Clothes, 1909–1939," March 25–May 25, 1975, not in catalogue.
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," April 19–June 1, 1986, no. 37 (as "Nice, La Baie des Anges").
Kobe City Museum. "Landscape Painting in the East and West," June 7–July 13, 1986, no. 37.
Yokohama Museum of Art. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century," March 25–June 4, 1989, no. 156 (as "Nice, La Baie des Anges").
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "Raoul Dufy: Séries et séries noires," January 24–June 1, 1997, no. 82 (as "Nice, la promenade des Anglais aux deux palmiers," 1925).
Portland, Me. Portland Museum of Art. "Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and their Contemporaries," June 25–October 18, 1998, no. 20 (as "Nice, La Baie des Anges [Nice, the Bay of Angels]").
West Palm Beach, Fla. Norton Museum of Art. "Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves," March 27–June 6, 1999, no. 31 (as "La Baie des Anges, Nice").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 50; dated 1932).
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," September 14–November 24, 2002, no. 58 (dated 1932).
Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Picasso and the School of Paris: Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 7, 2002–March 9, 2003, no. 58.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "Raoul Dufy, le plaisir," October 17, 2008–January 11, 2009, no. 86 (as "La Baie des Anges, Nice," 1932).
Maurice Laffaille. Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Vol. 2, Geneva, 1973, pp. 16, 396, no. 426, ill., calls it "Nice, la promenade des anglais aux deux palmiers".
Mahonri Sharp Young. "Letter from the U.S.A., Bag Lady: Part I." Apollo 120 (July 1984), p. 65, fig. 1, calls it "View of Nice," dates it 1929, and lists it as a watercolor.
Lisa Messinger inLandscape Painting in the East and West. Exh. cat., Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. [Shizuoka–ken], 1986, pp. 97, 293, 359, no. 37, ill. (color), dates it 1927.
Lisa M. Messinger inTreasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1989, p. 194, no. 156, ill. (color), dates it 1932.
Kate Farrell. Art and Nature: An Illustrated Anthology of Nature Poetry. New York, 1992, ill. p. 36 (color), calls it "Nice, La Baie des Anges" and dates it 1932.
Kenneth E. Silver inImpressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and their Contemporaries. Exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art. Portland, Me., 1998, pp. 39–40, 77, no. 20, fig. 32 (color), dates it 1932.
Elisa Turner. "Raoul Dufy: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach." Art News 98 (Summer 1999), ill. p. 160 (color).
David F. Setford. Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves. Exh. cat., Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Fla., 1999, pp. 24, 83, no. 31, ill. p 43 (color), dates it 1932.
Fanny Guillon-Laffaille in David F. Setford. Raoul Dufy: Last of the Fauves. Exh. cat., Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, 1999, p. 7.
Didier Schulmann inPromenade(S) des Anglais. Exh. cat., Ville de Nice. Paris, 2015, ill. p. 238 (color), calls it "Nice, la Promenade des Anglais aux deux palmiers" and dates it 1925.
Raoul Dufy (French, Le Havre 1877–1953 Forcalquier)
ca. 1920
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