Is this the only reason for these delaysNonThe challenges multiply its coffers are emptyConclusions in line with the other work on these issues2 of the operational result current EUR 5Chrysler and Fiat have developed a partnership which has a strong chance of successHe will soon hold 30 of the voting rightsPassengers who sail to Corsica are lovers of nature68 million to various venture capital fundThere is a pole bio health but he limpingwithout that laidoff employees are compensatedNinety-five percent of his time were devoted to his films, his film. His collection of paintings was more, a reflection of his intimate world. The expression of a kind of loyalty to his mother, but also a genuine enthusiasm. "It is Danièle Thompson, Director, speaking of his father, Gérard Oury. The latter, responsible for hits such as "Rabbi Jacob", "La Grande Vadrouille" or "Le Corniaud" had a secret painting Garden, French animated primarily by an artist with whom he maintained a relationship: Raoul Dufy. The decision of its collection is dispersed by Artcurial. "It was his living environment." He died in 2006. This sale is a way of grieving for his absence. 
Operation is organized in two stages: the evening of April 20, the most prestigious and most expensive lots. In the presented 38 works, 35 are signed Dufy. The next afternoon, 270 other lots including furniture, letters, memorabilia and also 54 drawings by the same painter. The whole is estimated at EUR 4.7 million.
Epicurisme
The Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris organized until last January a retrospective to Raoul Dufy. As explained Fabrice Hergott, the Director of the institution, painter was first a Fauve artist then Cubist, before becoming what he calls a "popular" artist One could also say a commercial artist. "Its creation should be a reflection of the pleasures of existence, the happier, the happiest life aspects." The ubiquity of the colours is a reflection.
This epicurean representation is certainly one of the motivations of the attraction of Gérard Oury Dufy works. But, above all, it was well known. Danièle Thompson tells that, somehow, Dufy "was part of the family, as a great-uncle. "My grandmother, who had been what would today be called the press officer of the couturier Paul Poiret, attending many of the artists but in Dufy with whom she had a binding , she liked the man and the artist." In 1965, it will also publish a book tribute which is intended, called "Letter to my painter", composed of a collection of texts and quotes from Chagall, Villon, Masson... "She lived until her death in 1980, in the same building of the rue de Courcelles as his only son, with whom she had a strong relationship. The granddaughter says that tables were invariably one apartment to the other. Itself has visited tiny workshop Dufy, impasse Guelma, at the foot of Montmartre, in the company of his grandmother. "Before the visit, she wanted to make me realize that I wasn't in anyone, nothing is more admirable than an artist." I saw him, sieve of articular rheumatism, brushes attached to the fingers by his loyal assistant. One day, I remember, my grandmother went mad with joy. "Finally, I will have"The race"." "I received a payment in several times." At home, the works were crammed with each other on the walls. The collection of my father is a continuation of the maternal passion.
Estimates revised downwards
What Marcelle Oury called "The race" is in the sale "weighing scene". The canvas, in the shades of green, dates from 1949. She had been commissioned by prince Aly Khan, who was unable to honour the payment of the table. Therefore, the admirer of Dufy was able to recover. It is one of the works to the highest estimate of sales: 450,000 euros.
But the painting with the history of art, is the most important is "Boats and boats in the Martigues", achieved late 1907 - early 1908. A composition in blue, green and orange tones to the schematic forms. The bottom of the canvas is fully occupied large vertical colored lines. The upper part is made of views of roofs. She was exposed on the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in the city of Paris at the recent retrospective. Estimate: 500,000 euros. The expert of the sale, Violaine of the brush, explained that negotiations relating to the collection were initiated for several months already and that estimates were revised downward, to 25 on average, to take account of the general slowdown of transactions in the art market.
Watercolours and sketches
The other historically significant painting is "the bathers-landscape" of 1907, a composition with curves, pink, blue and violet. The lower estimate is justified, according to the expert by its appearance more outlined that the landscape of Martigues: 150,000 euros.
The third major work, of a style cubisant, dated 1914, is a gouache representing a bather. It is one of the Archetypes of the creation of Dufy, returning several times on this theme, as the excellent exposure of Didier Schulmann at the Gianadda Foundation in 1997. Large format gouache (155 131) represents a gironde naiad in marine costume on bottom of angled City (estimate: 350,000 euros).
When it is not the fauve period, the most popular works by the market are watercolors by the artist. Atypical: Josephine Baker in 1930 (estimate: 8,000 euros). Accessible: a carton of invitation for a piece of theatre in 1912: "The phone call" (estimated at 1,500 euros). And popular: "Presentation of horses", a large sheet estimated at 100,000 euros.
The sale also includes sketches of the artist from 1,500 euros on the theme of the horses and the sea. A recollection of Dufy. A recollection of Gérard Oury also.
