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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Lady in Pink - 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 dame en rose, 1912
    Oil on canvas
    45 5/8 x 34 7/8 in. (116.5 x 88.5 cm.)

    The present work is a monumental, lavish and expressive painting which marks an important stage in Dufy's career as he continuously assimilated the lessons of Cézanne and Cubism, as well as the bold and vibrant palette of the Fauves, while moving towards a more personal aesthetic, one whose colour theories he would further develop and explore over the coming decades. Most probably a portrait of his wife, La dame en rose finds its antecedent in 1908, in a painting of the same title now in the collection of the Musée d'Art moderne in Paris. A comparison of the two works works not only displays Dufy's stylistic and colouristic development in the intervening years, but also reveals some interesting compositional alterations. The hands have become more twisted and expressive, while the eyes have taken on a Modigliani-like emptiness that at once engages and enthrals the viewer. La dame en rose displays Dufy's pre-occupation with a lyrical composition in which form and colour combine to produce a vibrant and fluid work.

    'During this period of development a fundamental aspect of Dufy's art becomes apparent: the monumentality of the human figure. It occupies the larger part of the composition, as in the Portait of Madame Dufy, better known as Woman in pink of 1908. The density of the figure derives from the lesson that he had learned from Cézanne, along with the mannerist distortion of the hands, which is exaggerated in the 1912 version. Two additional influences, inherited from the Fauve period, are brought together in this work: the influence of Gauguin in the decorative arabesques and the black outlines that surround the forms; and the influence of Van Gogh's self-portraits, in the comma-like strokes of colour that twist around in a circular rhythm' (D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, Paris, 1989, p. 43).

    There exist three other versions of the present work; the first, executed in 1908, is probably the first time Dufy painted his wife and is now in the collection of the Musée d'Art moderne in Paris, a bequest from Madame Dufy herself. The second is more akin to the present work in its increased stylisation and angularity; its current whereabouts are unknown. The last version, stylistically similar to the first, is in the Musée de Grenoble, also a bequest from Madame Dufy.

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

Epsom, the racecourse seen from the stands
Epsom, the racecourse seen from the stands
Vence 2
Vence 2
The Pine (Le Pin)
The Pine (Le Pin)
Farmyard (Cour de ferme)
Farmyard (Cour de ferme)
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.