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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • Poiret's Models - 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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  • Les mannequins de Poiret, 1941
    gouache and watercolour on paper

    This work is also sold with a photo-certificate from Fanny Guillon-Laffaille.

    Executed in 1941, Les mannequins de Poiret is filled with the cosmopolitan bustle of the races. The horses and the various fashionable figures are seen moving around on the bright green background. The eponymous models are shown wearing a variety of clothes in various styles and colours, but are clearly on discreet display, mingling as they are with much of the rest of the fashionable scene.

    Dufy had been commissioned to provide designs for stationary by Paul Poiret in 1910, and for decades the pair worked together frequently. In this context, Dufy primarily provided designs for fabrics, while also creating paintings and decorations for the various rooms and parties that were used in the display of fashion. Important within this context was Dufy's hanging, one of several created according to his specifications, for Poiret's barge, the Orgues, also showing his models at the races. Several of the figures-- most notably the woman with her back turned to the viewer-- and the compositional elements in the present work have clearly been transferred from the older work. However, they have gained a great deal of spontaneity in this translation from the monumental to the far more intimate and vigorous medium of gouache and watercolour. Here, darting brushstrokes have been used to conjure the various figures into existence, lending the work a sense of movement that its predecessor completely lacked. In this sense, Les mannequins de Poiret appears to be a nostalgic visit to an older world, an older time, and a friendship that itself would be cut short by Poiret's death in 1944.

    The theme of the races would become one of Dufy's most favoured, and he would visit courses in many nations in order to see not only the excitement of the equestrian activities, but also the variety of people. It was in fact through another connection in the fashion world that Dufy had initially gone to the races, his friend Bianchini. He was one of the heads of a company that printed many of the fabrics that Dufy designed for Poiret; later, Bianchini and Dufy would collaborate in other projects of their own. Bianchini felt that the races provided a perfect arena for Dufy to see what was in vogue in the world of fashion at a given moment, and would, like Poiret himself, often accompany the artist to the tracks.

    (fig. 1) Poiret cape with Amphytrite design by Dufy, 1926. (Photo: Roger Viollet, fonds Lipnitzki); ? Roger Viollet, Paris, 2007.

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Pink Bunch (Bouquet de Roses)
Pink Bunch (Bouquet de Roses)
Place Sainte-Catherine in Honfleur
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Poiret's Models in Deauville
Poiret's Models in Deauville
Portrait de Madame Raoul Dufy
Portrait de Madame Raoul Dufy
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.