Raoul Dufy - part 9

Raoul Dufy
gelatin silver print 34.3 x 26.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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 9 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:

1930 Leda and the Swan
watercolour on paper 50 x 65.7 cm

1930 Oxford Cambridge Boat Race
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.7 x 66.4 cm

1930 Parrots
textile / wallpaper design
gouache on paper 53 x 41 cm

1930 Portrait of Ambrose Vollard with Bathers
painted and enamelled ceramic 33.9 cm high

1930 Race Horses
gouache, watercolour and brush and ink and pencil on paper 56.6 x 75.9 cm

1930 Reclining Female Nude
colour lithograph 42.4 x 49 cm

1930 Rue Chaude in Marseille
gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 32.7 x 25.4 cm

1930 Rue Chaudein, Marseille
pencil, pen and ink on China paper 26.8 x 19.7 cm

1930 Seaside
gouache on paper 48.5 x 64 cm

1930 London, The Thames
watercolour on paper 48.2 x 65.2 cm

1930 Seedlings of Blue and Yellow Roses
textile / wallpaper design)
gouache on paper 49.7 x 37 cm

1930 Study of Primo Carnera's Boxing Match at the Albert-Hall in London
watercolour and India ink on paper 50 x 65 cm

1930 The Hindu
oil on canvas 42.2 x 56.8 cm

1930 The Weightlifter
oil on canvas 54 x 24.5 cm

c1930-35 Regatta at Deauville
oil on canvas 38.1 x 45.9 cm

c1930-35 The Reception
pen and ink on paper 50.2 x 65.3 cm

c1930 Bather with Sailboat and Shell
gouache on paper 31.5 x 49 cm

c1930 Bathers
etching 29 x 20 cm

c1930 Boats
oil on canvas 73 x 91.8 cm

c1930 Departure of the Sailboats in Deauville
oil on canvas 34 x 46.4 cm

c1930 Fernand Fleuret
etching 25.5 x 22.5 cm (Image)
MoMA, New York
 © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1930 Group of Jockeys and Horses
gouache and watercolour on paper 50 x 66.3 cm

c1930 Havanaise
etching 34.9 x 51.4 cm

c1930 Jockeys and Horses before the Start
gouache over pencil on paper laid down on card 51.3 x 67.5 cm

c1930 Nice Casino with Two Urns
oil on canvas 46 x 55.4 cm

c1930 Normandy Countryside (Cows in a Meadow)
pen and ink on paper 25.9 x 39.9 cm

c1930 Nude on Blue Drapery
gouache on paper 50.2 x 66 cm

c1930 Road in the Forest
oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm

c1930 Rowers at Henley
watercolour and gouache on paper 49.2 x 65 cm

c1930 The Beautiful Child or Love at Forty Years
etching on ivory wove paper 33.6 x 24.8 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1930 The Street decked out with Banners
oil on board 47.6 x 54.9 cm

c1930 Weighing in at Deauville
gouache on paper 50.8 x 65.9 cm

1931 Auvergne Landscape
watercolour an and gouache on paper 49.7 x 66 cm

1931 Portrait of a young Woman sitting in an Armchair
oil on canvas 81 x 64.8 cm

1931 Reclining Nude
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.4 x 66 cm

1931 The Circus
oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm

1931-32 The Kessler Family on Horseback
gouache on paper 50 x 66.9 cm
Tate, London
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022

1932 The Kessler Family on Horseback
oil on canvas 219.5 x 281.6 cm 
Tate, London
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022

c1931 Houses of Parliament, London
gouache and watercolour on paper 50 x 66 cm

c1931 La Marine
Furnishing Fabric
© V&A, London

c1931 Les Arums
Furnishing Fabric of tissue silk 70.5 x 103.3 cm
© V&A, London

c1931 The Start at Saint-Cloud
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.2 x 65.5 cm

1932 Regatta on the River
watercolour and gouache on paper 49.1 x 61.5 cm

1932 Sainte-Réparate, Nice
oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm

1932 The Conductor
oil on canvas 73.2 x 92.2 cm

c1932 Four Women in the Salon
 ink on paper 50.2 x 66.3 cm

c1932 Pension Sévigné, Nice
watercolour, ink and gouache on paper 50.8 x 65.8 cm

1933 Clump of Trees
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.8 x 66 cm

1933 Deauville, drying the Sails
oil on canvas 46.4 x 110.2 cm
Tate, London
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2022

1933The Fish Plate
 lithograph on white vellum 46 x 34 cm

1933 Landscape of the Langres
oil on canvas 37.8 x 46.1 cm

1933 Landscape of Touraine, Langres
oil on canvas 33.6 x 41.5 cm

1933 Paris, Place de la Concorde
watercolour on paper 49 x 65.7 cm