Saturday 22 October 2022

Raoul Dufy - part 2

1898 Self-Portrait
©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 2 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:


1906 Casino
oil on canvas 60 x 72.5 cm

1906 Flowers in a Vase
oil on canvas 41.2 x 27.2 cm

1906 Frouzette and her Mother
oil on canvas 61.2 x 46.3 cm

1906 Dance
oil on canvas 35 x 42 cm

1906 La Rue Pavoisée
oil on canvas 54.6 x 46 cm

1906 Still Life with Closed Shutters
oil on canvas 80.9 x 64.9 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
© Estate of Raoul Dufy / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / ADAGP, Paris

1906 The Beach at Le Havre
oil on canvas 65.2 x 81.2 cm

1906 The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm

1906 The Beach in Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 65 x 81.2 cm

1906 The County Ball
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm

1906 The Loire at Durtal
oil on canvas 33 x 40.9 cm

1906 The Painter Axilette and his Family
oil on canvas 43.9 x 38.6 cm

1906 The popular Ball
oil on canvas 34 x 42 cm

1906 The Port of Le Havre
oil on canvas 50 x 60.7 cm

1906 The Promenade
oil on canvas 38.5 x 46.7 cm

c1906 The Fun Fair
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Emil Bührle Bührle Collection, Zurich

1907 Anglers
oil on canvas 60.6 x 73 cm

1907 Boats and Barques at Martigues
oil on canvas 45.8 x 54.5 cm

1907 Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase
oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.3 cm

1907 Canoeing
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm

1907 Flowers in a Vase
oil on canvas 41.2 x 27.2 cm

1907 Marine
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm

1907 Regatta at Trouville
oil on canvas 50 x 80 cm

1907 The Pier at Le Havre
oil on canvas 53.5 x 65 cm

c1907 Boats
hand-coloured woodcut 10.3 x 11.5 cm (image)

c1907 The Port
oil on canvas 60.2 x 73 cm

1908 Flowers
oil on canvas 46.3 x 38.4 cm

1908 Promenade on the Quays
watercolour and graphite on paper 25.4 x 30.5 cm

1908 Statue and two Urns
oil on canvas 65 x 81.3 cm

1908 The Bell tower (Church of St Vincent in Le Havre)
oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm

1908 The Funicular at L'Estaque
oil on canvas 38 x 46.2 cm

1908-09 Portrait of Madame Raoul Dufy
oil on canvas 83.8 x 65 cm

1908-09 Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm

1908-10 Landscape with Well
oil on canvas 54 x 65.1 cm

c1908 Yellow and Red landscape: The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 54 x 65 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

1909 Atelier in Rue Séguier
 oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm

1909 Countryside
oil on canvas 35.3 x 29 cm

1909 Horse Riders, Avenue of Trees
oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm

1909 Munich
oil on canvas 46.5 x 59.5 cm

1909 Rider and Walker in the Wood
oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm

1909 Sainte-Adresse, the Beach
oil on canvas 46.2 x 55 cm

1909 Statue and two Urns
oil on canvas 38.3 x 45.8 cm

1909 The Artist and his Model
oil on canvas 81 x 65.5 cm

1909 The Botanical Garden
oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm

c1909 Madame Dufy
charcoal on paper 56.4 x 45.9 cm

c1909 Seated Nude
pencil on paper 58.5 x 44 cm

c1909 Studio in Rue Séguier
oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm

1909-10 View of the Port, Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 37.1 x 45.4 cm

1909-10 Garden in Munich
oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm

1909-10 Boats
oil on canvas 47 x 54.9 cm

1910 Red Houses at Sainte-Adresse
oil on canvas 81 x 130 cm

1910 The Dance
woodcut 31.4 x 31.7 cm (image)
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

c1910 The Pumpkin
(study for "The Mouse of the Bestiary" by Guillaume Apollinaire)
gouache, India ink and pencil on paper 55.3 x 44.2 cm

c1911 Flowers, Oranges, and Cherries
block printing on silk, satin weave 88.5 x 85.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
© 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris