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 11 of 18 on the works of Raoul Dufy:
1936 The hunter's meal
watercolour and gouache on paper 50.5 x 66 cm
1936-37 Minerva
gouache on paper, squared for transfer 50 x 65 cm
c1936 Sailing-Boats In Deauville
oil on canvas
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
c1936 The Reception
pen and ink and watercolour on paper 50 x 65 cm
c1936 View of Paris
gouache on paper 49.8 x 65 cm
1937 Amboise
India ink on paper 50.3 x 65.5 cm
1937 Chateau Azay-le-Rideau
gouache and watercolour on paper 50 x 64.8 cm
1937 Chateau Chenonceaux 1
watercolour and gouache on paper 51 x 66.3 cm
1937 Château de Chenonceaux 2
gouache and watercolour on paper 50.5 x 66 cm
1937 Château de Chambord
gouache and watercolour on paper 49.8 x 63.8 cm
1937 Chinon
gouache, watercolour and brush and black ink on paper
50.4 x 65.3 cm
1937 The Port of New York
watercolour on paper 27.2 x 34 cm%20Detroit%20Institute%20of%20Art,%20MI.jpeg)
1937 Villandry
watercolour on white wove paper 50.2 x 65.1 cm (sheet)
Detroit Institute of Art, MI
c1937 Allegory with Angels
oil on board 23 x 38 cm
c1937 Herman von Hermholtz
India ink on paper and heightened with white gouache
65.4 x 49.8 cm
La Feé Électricité (The Electric Fairy) artworks and set of lithographs:
1937 La Fée Electricité
lithograph in black on paper 101.4 x 63.4 cm
1937 La Fée Electricité study
gouache, black crayon and pencil on paper 49.8 x 59.8 cm
La Fée Electricité
colour lithograph 101.6 x 63.5 cm
La Fée Electricité original artwork
ink and pencil with watercolour highlights 65.5 x 50 cm
La Fée Electricité study
gouache and pencil on paper 50.8 x 66 cm
La Fée Electricité
colour lithograph on vellum 30 x 48 cm
La Fée Electricité
watercolour and gouache 48 x 59 cm
La Fée Electricité
colour lithograph 103 x 65 cm
La Fée Electricité
colour lithograph 103 x 65 cm
La Fée Electricité
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La Fée Electricité
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La Fée Electricité
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La Fée Electricité
André-Marie Ampère
colour lithograph 65 x 50 cm
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| c1937 La place à Tarascon gouache on paper 17.5 x 19.5 cm |
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| c1937 Private Insurance oil on canvas 564.9 x 168.9 cm |
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| 1938 Ascot watercolour and gouache, over graphite on off-white 50.2 x 64.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1938 Baccarat oil on panel 38 x 46.1 cm |
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| 1938 Carnival in Nice gouache and watercolour on paper 50.2 x 61.6 cm |
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| 1938 Chinon watercolour on paper 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1938 Deauville before the start gouache and watercolour on paper 50 x 66 cm |
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| 1938 Deauville oil on canvas 58.4 x 73 cm |
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| 1938 Design for the 'le bel été' upholstery ink on paper 26 x 44.5 cm |
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| 1938 Mouth of the Seine and Normandy Countryside oil on panel 44.5 x 43 cm |
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| 1938 Nice, Le Guéridon oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.4 cm |
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| 1938 Open window in Nice oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm |
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| 1938 Regatta, Deauville oil on canvas 33.2 x 82 cm |
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| 1938 The Entrance to the Chateau watercolour and gouache on paper 50 x 65.5 cm |
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| 1938 Customs Point, Venice gouache on paper 50.2 x 66 cm |
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| 1938 Gondolas in front of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice opaque and transparent watercolour on wove paper 50 x 66 cm (sheet) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1938 Piazza San Marco, Venice watercolour and gouache on paper 50.1 x 65.4 cm |
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| 1938 Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice watercolour on paper 50.2 x 66.1 cm |
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| 1938 Venice, the Quay of the Esclavons gouache on paper 50 x 66 cm |
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| 1938 View of the San Zanipolo Basilica and the Colleone Statue, Venice watercolour and gouache on paper 50 x 65 cm |
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| 1938 Window on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice oil on canvas 46 x 38.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1938-40c Boating on the Marne oil on panel 15.4 x 30.2 cm |
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| c1938 Aphrodite with Butterflies watercolour on paper 48.3 x 63.8 cm Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - ADAGP, Paris |
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| c1938 Composition, boats, shells in the bay of Sainte-Adresse oil on canvas 60.2 x 73 cm |
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| c1938 Deauville before the start gouache and watercolour on paper 50 x 66 cm |
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| c1938 Portrait of Fenand Fleuret gouache on paper 55.9 x 42.1 cm |
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| c1938 Portrait of Pierre Geismar pencil on tracing paper 35.4 x 26.9 cm |