Raoul Dufy - part 10

Raoul Dufy (born June 3, 1877, Le Havre, France—died March 23, 1953, Forcalquier), French painter and designer noted for his brightly coloured and highly decorative scenes of luxury and pleasure.

In 1900 Dufy went to Paris to attend the École des Beaux-Arts. He painted in an Impressionist style in his early work, but by 1905 he had begun to employ the broad brushstrokes and bright colours typical of the Fauvre artists. A 1907 exhibition of Paul Cézanne’s work convinced Dufy to adopt temporarily more subdued colours and structured compositions. He worked in a Cubist-influenced style with the painters Georges Braque and Émile-Othon Friesz during 1908 and 1909, but he soon returned to his more carefree Fauvist approach.

Dufy was also a successful artist in other media. In 1910 he produced a series of woodcuts to illustrate poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s Bestiary. He began to create designs for a textile company in 1912, and in the 1920s he designed ceramics and tapestries.

In the early 1920s Dufy rededicated himself to painting and began to produce what are now his best-known works. His distinctive style is characterised by bright colours thinly spread over a white ground, with objects sketchily delineated by sensuously undulating lines. Dufy took as his subjects scenes of recreation and spectacle, including horse races, regattas, parades, and concerts. He spent much of his time on the French Riviera and produced series of paintings of Nice (1927), the Bois de Boulogne (1929), and Deauville (1930). He also worked as an illustrator and printmaker, creating whimsically drawn etchings and lithographs in the 1920s and ’30s. Though very popular, his lively, carefree, elegant paintings have been criticised as occasionally bordering on the superficial. 

This part 10 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:

1933-39 Epsom Race Course, Surrey, UK:

1933 Epsom
watercolour and gouache on cream paper 50.3 x 65.9 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1933 Epsom, the Course
oil on canvas 38.1 x 46.4 cm

1933 The Lawn at Epsom
gouache on paper 50.5 x 66.5 cm

1937 The Course at Epsom
gouache and watercolour on paper. 49.5 x 65.4 cm

c1938 Races at Epsom
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.5 x 66 cm

1939 Epsom
colour lithograph on wove paper 53.8 x 66 cm

1939 Epsom, Tourists in the Stand
watercolour on paper 50 x 65 cm

n.d. Epsom
watercolour and gouache on paper 19 x 66 cm

n.d. Epsom, the Racetrack seen from the Stands
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.2 x 66 cm

n.d. Epsom, the Racetrack seen from the Stands
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.3 x 66.2 cm

n.d. Horses and Punters at Epsom
watercolour on paper 49.5 x 65.7 cm

n.d. The Course at Epsom
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.2 x 64.4 cm

1933 Place de la Concorde, Paris
watercolour on paper 48 x 64.5 cm

1933 The Changing of the Guard at Saint-James
gouache on paper 50.8 x 66.2 cm

1933 The Great Wheat Field
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm

1933 The Maenads, Study for the Ballet "Palm Beach"
watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper 44.4 x 56.2 cm

c1933 Haras du Pin
gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 50.2 x 65.5 cm

c1933 The Changing of the Guard at Saint-James
gouache, pen and black ink and pencil on paper 33 x 48 cm

c1933 Theatre Curtain for the Palm Beach Ballet
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.3 x 65.4 cm

1934 Philippeville, The Square
watercolour on paper 50 x 65 cm

1934 Philippeville in Algeria
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.5 x 66.5 cm

1934 Paris
oil on canvas 196.2 x 156.5 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
© Estate of Raoul Dufy / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / ADAGP, Paris

1934 On the banks of the Seine
oil on canvas 46.2 x 55.2 cm

1934 Nogent-sur-Marne
oil on canvas 97.5 x 130.5 cm

1934 Cafe Scene
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.8 x 66.8 cm

1934 Yachts at Deauville
medium? 47.3 x 110.8 cm

1934-35 Untitled (after Constantin Guys)
gouache on paper 58.4 x 71.7 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1934 The Reaper
pen and black ink heightened with white and washed
 52 x 39.7 cm

c1934 The Residence of Du Val, Esquire
watercolour and gouache on paper 49.6 x 65.5 cm

1935 Ascot
colour lithograph 50.2 x 63.5 cm

1935 Boaters on the Thames
oil on panel 19.3 x 22.5 cm

1935 Boating on the Marne
oil on canvas 50 x 73 cm

1935 Drying the Sails, Deauville
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

1935 Forban
oil on canvas 33.3 x 82.5 cm

1935 Goodwood Races
gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper 38 x 28 cm

1935 La Baie de Sainte-Adresse
colour lithograph 47 x 88 cm

1935 Langres
pen and India ink on paper 50.4 x 66 cm

1935 Langres
pen and India ink on paper 50 x 65 cm

1935 Portrait of Claude Moulon in Pierrot's
costume oil on canvas 35 x 27 cm

1935 Regatta
oil on canvas 32.7 x 40.9 cm

1935 The Chapel in the Wheat Fields, Normandy
oil on canvas 46.5 x 56.2 cm

1935 The Manor of Vallon
oil on canvas 54.1 x 65.2 cm

1935 Track at Ascot
pochoir 32.4 x 39.4 cm

1935 Wheat Field in Normandy
oil on canvas 46.4 x 54.9 cm

1935 Yachts in the Port of Deauville
oil on canvas 65 x 81.3 cm

1935-38 Mythological Scene
oil on canvas 42.2 x 50.4 cm

1935-38 The Liner
oil on canvas 35.7 x 44.5 cm

c1935 Chantilly, the Chateau Gate
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.3 x 66 cm

c1935 Constantin Guys
oil on canvas 38.5 x 46.6 cm

1935c Female Nude
transparent and opaque watercolour on paper
(size not given)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

c1935 Wheat Field Landscape with Oxen
oil on canvas 46.3 x 55.3 cm

1936 Autumn Vines
pochoir with hand touches 26 x 35.5 cm

1936 Harvest
colour lithograph 61.3 x 49.9 cm

1936 Paris and the Eiffel Tower
gouache and watercolour on paper 65 x 50.2 cm

1936 St. James Palace, Rain Effect
oil on canvas 33.6 x 41.5 cm