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  • Raoul Dufy
    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Pier 1906 - 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 jetée, 1906
    Oil on canvas
    25 3/4x 32 1/8 in. (65.4 x 81.5 cm.)

    In July and August of 1906 Dufy travelled along the Normandy coast in the company of Albert Marquet. Here, painting side by side in the newly popular resort towns of Le Havre, Trouville and Honfleur, they explored the possibilities offered by the expressive, saturated colours of the Fauve palette, allied to their own - often remarkably similar - summary modelling and use of black. 'Dufy's works from this period reveal, in their use of black - a colour banished from the fauve palette - the influence of the art of Manet, which both Dufy and Marquet came to appreciate when his work was shown in a retrospective at the 1905 Salon d'Automne. They too drew upon this straightforward way of simplifying forms and constructing them through the arbitrary use of pure colours' (D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, London, 1989, pp. 28-29).

    Dufy had painted a series of pictures in his earlier Impressionistic style depicting figures on the beach and the famous pier at Sainte-Adresse between 1901 and 1904. Returning to the subject in 1906 with La jetée, Dufy has imbued a familiar subject with the pictorial freedom of his Fauve experiments and the luminosity inherent in his theory of couleur-lumière that was to preoccupy him over his entire career. 'Around 1905-1906, I was painting on the beach at Sainte-Adresse. I had previously painted beaches in the manner of the Impressionists, and had reached saturation point, realizing that this method of copying nature was leading me off into infinity, with its twists and turns and its most subtle and fleeting details... How...could I succeed in conveying not what I see, but that which is, that which exists for me, my reality... From that day onwards, I was unable to return to my barren struggles with the elements that were visible to my gaze. It was no longer possible to show them in their external form' (Dufy, quoted in op. cit., p. 23).

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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.