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  • Raoul Dufy
    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • Nogent-sur-Marne - 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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  • 1934
    Oil on canvas
    38 7/8 x 51 3/8 in. (97.5 x 130.5 cm.)

    The present work depicts Nogent-sur-Marne, on the eastern outskirts of Paris. While oarsmen featured in Dufy's work as early as 1919, it was only several years later that he painted them on the Marne, often focusing on the boathouse, as here, with flag flying overhead and viaduct at left. Dufy returned to the scene periodically until the mid-1930s, executing many sketches in pencil and pen and ink, with some 19 completed oils, of which Nogent-sur-marne is one of the last and most satisfying.

    Dora Perez-Tibi writes of these works: "What [Dufy] is seeking to capture is man at work, surrounded by light. Dufy distributes this light over the surface of the canvas according to a three-colour principle which allows him to modulate it by ridding himself of shadow. Refusing to divide each object into light and shade, he illuminates the vertical objects facing the source of light, arranging them vertically in relation to the light. Thus, he juxtaposes, vertically or horizontally, three zones of contrasting colours" (Dufy, New York, 1989, p. 139).

    Nogent-sur-Marne differs from the run of the series in its scale, being among the largest, and its unusual perspective. Whereas the rest are straightforward views of oarsmen, the boathouse or the river itself from the opposite bank, in the present painting, we view the whole from an elegant balcony, flanked by open shutters, over baroque railing, underneath the bright red awning. Only one other oil situates its perspective in this way, the smaller and later variant, Le balcon sur La Marne (Laffaille, no. 953).

    With its striking composition and orientation, Nogent-sur-Marne was highly regarded on its completion, featuring in international exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh the year it was painted and at the Petit Palais in Paris in 1937.

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

House in Golfe-Juan
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Venise (Venice)
Venise (Venice)
Epsom, the Race
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Sailboats and Rowboats in the Port
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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.