ART & ARTISTS: Raoul Dufy

Monday 28 November 2022

Raoul Dufy - part 18

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 18 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:

n.d. Still Life with Flowers
watercolour on paper 62.2 x 47.4 cm

n.d. Still Life with Pears and Jug
gouache on paper 48 x 63 cm

n.d. Still Life with Provençal Landscape
gouache and watercolour over pencil on paper 50.8 x 66 cm

n.d. Still Life with Turkey
watercolour on paper 50 x 66.7 cm

n.d. Still Life with Violin
colour lithograph 47 x 53 cm

n.d. Study of Butterflies
watercolour and crayon on Ingres paper 48 x 62.5 cm

n.d. Study of Flowers
graphite and ink on paper 58 x 47 cm

n.d. Sweet Peas
gouache, watercolour and ink on paper 55 x 40 cm

n.d. The Avenue of Trees
oil on canvas 33 x 40.8 cm

n.d. The Blue Horse
gouache on paper 21.5 x 19 cm

n.d. The Children of Dr. Roudinesco
lithograph 45.5 x 56 cm

n.d. The Course at Auteuil
gouache, watercolour and pen and ink on paper 49.2 x 66 cm

n.d. The Course at Epsom
watercolour on paper 50 x 65 cm

n.d. The Diner
gouache on paper 50.2 x 64.4 cm

n.d. The Grand Concert
colour lithograph 52 x 44 cm

n.d. The House on the Corner of the Street
colour lithograph 55 x 39 cm

n.d. The Lion of Venice
gouache on paper 53 x 37 cm

n.d. The Paddock at Deauville
colour lithograph 61 x 100 cm

n.d. The Port of Cowes
colour lithograph (?) x 48.3 cm

n.d. The Port
watercolour on paper 49.8 x 64.7 cm

n.d. The Quintette
oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm

n.d. The Rabbit
watercolour and ink wash 48.3 x 60.3 cm
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

n.d. The Rose Garden
India ink on paper 90 x 90 cm

n.d. The Sea
colour lithograph 26.5 x 44 cm

n.d. The Three Graces
colour lithograph with stencil colouring in gouache
27 x 34 cm

n.d. The Thresher on the Farm
oil on canvas 46 x 55cm

n.d. The Thresher
watercolour on paper 44 x 55 cm

n.d. The Wedding
pen and blue ink and blue wash 24.5 x 32.5 cm

n.d. Theatre Costume
gouache, brush and ink and pencil on paper 31 x 20.1 cm

n.d. Trouville
oil on canvas 54.3 x 65 cm

n.d. Two Antillean Women
etching on laid paper 38.7 x 54 cm

n.d. Two Yachts
colour lithograph 35.5 x 51 cm

n.d. Two Young Women by the Sea
gouache on paper 50 x 41 cm

n.d. Vence
oil on canvas 65.1 x 81.3 cm

n.d. Village in the Trees
graphite on paper 43 x 58 cm

n.d. Violets
pochoir 21.5 x 15.6 cm

n.d. Visit of the English Squad in Le Havre
gouache and ink with traces of pencil on paper 50.8 x 66 cm

n.d. Visit of the English Squad in Le Havre
watercolour, gouache and pencil on pape 50.5 x 49.5 cm

n.d. Wildflowers
pen and India ink on paper 66 x 50.4 cm

n.d. Wine Growers in Provence
watercolour, gouache and brush and ink on paper
50.5 x 65 cm