Wednesday 2 November 2022

Raoul Dufy - part 7

 


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 7 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:


1925 La Mer series:

1925 La Mer
lithograph title plate for the Series 'La Mer'
19 x 16.5 cm
© V&A, London

1925 A Harbour Scene
colour lithograph 33 x 43.4 cm
© V&A, London

1925 A Regatta
colour lithograph 35.5 x 45.7 cm
© V&A, London

1925 A Regatta
lithograph 33.6 x 48.8 cm
© V&A, London

1925 Men Bathing
lithograph 33 x 44.4 cm
© V&A, London

1925 Naked Women Swimming
lithograph 35.5 x 49.5 cm
© V&A, London

1925 Ships sailing from a Harbour
lithograph 34.9 x 43.8 cm
© V&A, London

1925 Shrimpers
lithograph 33.6 x 44.4 cm
© V&A, London

1925 Portrait of the Poet François Berthault
oil on paper laid down on canvas 80.6 x 64.8 cm

1925 Roses on Black Diamonds
textile / wallpaper design
watercolour, gouache, collage and pencil on paper
 50.5 x 37.7 cm

1925 Sailors on the Coast
gouache on paper 48 x 64 cm

1925 Saint-Paul de Vence
oil on canvas  54.6 x 64.8 cm

1925 The Open Window
oil on canvas 73 x 92 cm

1925 The Seine
watercolour on paper 30 x 33.5 cm

1925 The Studio by the Sea
oil on canvas 88.9 x 116.2 cm

1925 Venus with Seashell
gouache on cream wove paper 49.8 x 65 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1925-28 Amphitrite
gouache and watercolour on paper 43.5 x 50 cm

1925-35 Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
etching on ivory laid paper 21.7 x 17.5 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1925 Amphitrite and Sea Horses
gouache on paper 77 x 69 cm

c1925 Amphitrite
India ink on tracing paper 90.5 x 75.6 cm

c1925 Baccarat
players gouache and black crayon on paper 27.3 x 51.8 cm

c1925 Bar-Tabac
India ink on paper 27.7 x 21.2 cm

c1925 Cannes, the Croisette
gouache and watercolour on paper 47.6 x 60.9 cm

c1925 Dressage Horse
watercolour on paper 49.5 x 65.2 cm

c1925 Fountain in Cannes
watercolour and gouache on paper 49.6 x 64.4 cm

c1925 Regatta
oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm

c1925 The Marne
oil on canvas 130.5 x 162.5 cm

c1925 The Party or Presentation of the Models at Poiret
gouache, watercolour, pen and black ink and pencil on paper 26 x 49.5 cm

c1925 The Window in Nice
gouache and watercolour on paper 66 x 50.5 cm

1926 Avenue of Trees, Palais Rose
oil on canvas 38 x 45.7 cm cm

1926 Avenue of Trees, Palais Rose
oil on canvas 61 x 74.5 cm

1926 Ghent
watercolour on paper 51.2 x 66.9 cm

1926 Golfe Juan
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm

1926 Golfe Juan, Juan les Pins and Cap d'Antibes
lithograph in black ink on simili-Japan paper 44.4 x 57.1 cm (sheet)

1926 Homage to Claude Lorrain
gouache and ink on paper 49.8 x 65 cm

1926 Homage to Claude Lorrain
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.2 x 64.6 cm

1926 Interior of the Menara
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.5 x 65 cm

1926 La Baie des Anges, Nice
oil on canvas 60.7 x 73.3 cm

1926 Letters and Symbols
textile / wallpaper design
pencil and gouache on paper 46 x 36 cm

1926 Moulay Idris
watercolour on paper 50.2 x 65.1 cm 

1926 Nautical Festival
colour aquatint 46.5 x 53 cm

1926 Paddock or Lawn
gouache on paper 56.2 x 75.7 c
m

1926 Pine in Golfe Juan
oil on canvas 38.1 x 45.9 cm

1926 Promenade by the Sea
gouache on paper 49.5 x 64.8 cm

1926 Rowers on the Marne
oil on canvas 38.5 x 46.5 cm

1926 The Arlesian
pen and India ink on paper 23.9 x 19 cm

1926 The Atlas
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.8 x 65.4 cm

1926 The Moorish Café
gouache, watercolour and ink on paper 49 x 64 cm

1926-27c Open Window at Saint-Jeannet
gouache on paper 65.6 x 50.7 cm
Tate, London
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 202
2

c1926-30 Red Naiad
oil on card laid down on canvas 16.6 x 36.3 cm

c1926 Orange Picking
gouache and watercolour on paper 65.5 x 67 cm

c1926 Ruins of Montmajour Abbey
watercolour on paper 50.2 x 65.5 cm

c1926 Sea Horse
oil on canvas 21.8 x 27.7 cm


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