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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Flagged Street - 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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  • La rue pavoisée, 1906
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    With its brilliant color brushed straight from the tube, or heightened with white, and a composition constructed on a stark white ground from the contrasts between these vivid tonalities, Dufy's La rue pavoisée defines the very essence of Fauve painting. It was, in fact, painted at the very height of the artist's affiliation with this radical movement, the first ground-breaking stylistic "-ism" in 20th century art.

    Before 1905 Dufy had been an Impressionist, rendering the subtle nuances of the northern light around Le Havre, his hometown, in muted, pastel tones, as Boudin and Monet, two other natives of Le Havre, had done before him. It came as a revelation to Dufy when he viewed Matisse's neo-Impressionist Luxe, calme et volupté (Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris) in March 1905 at the 21ème Salon des Indépendants. He later recalled how he then grasped "all the new reasons for painting. I understood instantly the new pictorial mechanics" (quoted in J. Freeman, The Fauve Landscape, exh. cat., The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990, p. 68).

    In mid-July Marquet joined Dufy in Le Havre, where they stayed at the H?tel du Ruban Bleu on the Place d'Armes. There they celebrated Le 14 Juillet, Bastille Day, and Dufy commenced a series of thirteen paintings, Les rues pavoisées ("The Streets Decked with Flags"). While painted fully in the Fauve manner, these pictures are sufficiently descriptive enough that we are able to tell that the skies were overcast that day in Le Havre, and, from the umbrellas carried by passers-by, that it rained on at least some of their festivities. La rue pavoisée shows the buildings, perhaps those across the street from Dufy's hotel room, festooned with flags of France and other European nations, although the artist has taken some liberties with their national colors. The view has been described from a very close vantage point, with the result that the composition is the most radically flat and closely cropped in the series. Dora Perez-Tibi has written, "[Dufy] kept creating new variations on the subject like a composer constantly repeating his melodic phrase. This procedure reveals his full control of his means: he gives free rein to his lyricism in order to transpose reality to the advantage of his poetic and visual imagination. From this point onwards, Dufy's work exhibits a tendency in common with the Fauves: rather than painting a favorite theme from life, he will be able to paint it in his studio, allowing his imagination to recreate it" (in Dufy, New York, 1989, pp. 29-30).

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

The Fisherman with Net
The Fisherman with Net
The Fishermen
The Fishermen
The Fleet in Villefranche
The Fleet in Villefranche
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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.