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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase - Raoul Dufy was a French artist and designer whose paintings and prints portrayed leisure activities and urban landscapes. His distinctive style is characterized 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.
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  • Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase, 1907
    Oil on canvas
    Private collection.

    Dating from 1907, Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase embodies many of the elements Dufy had been employing since the end of 1905, whilst working alongside Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse as a member of the Fauve movement in Normandy and Paris. Dufy’s Fauve period is widely considered the most formative and critical of his career, marking a new milestone of innovation in his practice, the artist exhibiting for the first time at the Salon d’Automne in 1906. They year 1907 saw a refinement of Dufy's work - he was by this stage paying more attention to composition, whilst his colours remained powerfully expressive and strong. The forms become flattened, and there is less desire by the artist to depict space - as is visible in the current picture, where the background has been flattened in deference to an emphasis on colour and a geometrical construction.

    "(the) rapid maturing of Dufy's Fauve style is evident, from the beginning of 1907, by a desire for refinement and simplification, both in his composition and in his transposition of visible appearances...The palette, too, becomes internalized, finding new resonances: a harmony of colour, limited to blues and yellows, sometimes meeting in a sea-green..., is warmed by a yellow or a red...This simplification and lack of ornamentation allow Dufy to give his composition the greatest possible intensity. This desire to stress linear rhythm in the construction of his composition is seen in the works painted in 1907" (D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, London, 1989, pp.31-32).

    An important theme in traditional Western art history, the time-honoured still life genre evokes by its very nature a sense of beautiful transience, harking back to the 17th Century Dutch painters’ concept of the vanitas. A number of the Impressionists harnessed the theme of flowers with vigour, frequently in still life format as with Henri Fantin-Latour or within the thriving garden as with Claude Monet in Giverny, reflecting the changes of season and light. The irrepressible sensuality evoked by flowers was aptly investigated too by Pierre-Auguste Renoir who had a distinctive flair for exploring luxuriant texture, often likening the petals of a rose to the cheek of a muse, with the soft delicacy of his painterly style. The still life genre took on a new significance for Dufy and his fellow modernists, such as his co-Fauves Matisse and Vlaminck, in line with their rigorous formal and colouristic pursuits, and later, Picasso and Chagall, for whom flowers were specifically interconnected with the abundance and beauty of the South of France. In Dufy’s case, colour and composition align as the central subjects of Bouquet de fleurs dans un vase; vibrant and alive in an explosion of colour, his flowers radiate myriad shapes in a rainbow-like cascade, fresh and bursting out of their tall jug against the rich, warm crimson of the background.

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Raoul DufyRaoul Dufy was a French artist and designer whose paintings and prints portrayed leisure activities and urban landscapes. He created airy washes of light and shade, into which he would draw bold calligraphic brushstrokes. The artist's experimental use of color was influenced both by Claude Monet and his Fauvist peer Henri Matisse. “Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue,” the artist mused. “Whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color—pink.” Born June 3, 1877 in Le Havre, France, he enrolled in night classes at the École des Beaux-Arts before studying under Léon Bonnat at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on a scholarship. Dufy first encountered Fauvism at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, after which he adapted the style to serve his own artistic purposes. During his life, the artist traveled both abroad and within France, painting views of the Mediterranean city of Nice, as well as scenes of horse races and regattas. Throughout the 1920s, Dufy worked in a variety of materials, producing ceramics, tapestry hangings, and large-scale architectural decorations. His commission for the 26th Venice Biennale won him the International Grand Prix for painting in 1952, a year before his death on March 23, 1953 in Forcalquier, France. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.