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  • Raoul Dufy
    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Red Quintet (Le quintette rouge) - 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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The Red Quintet (Le quintette rouge)
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  • Raoul Dufy
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  • 1948
    Oil on canvas
    Private collection.

    The subject of music first appeared in Dufy's oeuvre as early as 1902 and is explored further in his cubist years and, later, in the 1920s, but it was not until the 1940s that the artist explored the motif in all its variety with the close observation and eye for detail which one associates with his series of horse racing and boating pictures. Dufy often attended the rehearsals of the Société du Conservatoire des Concerts Colonne, making innumerable sketches of the musicians, their instruments and the endless variation of movement and expression which he would then employ in his finished compositions. Dufy was particularly concerned with the depiction of painterly rhythm and movement, creating harmonies and cadences that echo the creation of the music within. Dufy's friend Pablo Casals told him 'I cannot tell what piece your orchestra is playing, but I know which key it is written in' (quote in D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, London, 1989, p. 292).

    Unlike in many of the large orchestral compositions, in which the rapidly delineated instruments form strokes and dashes not unlike a somewhat haphazard musical score, the present work belongs to a series of more intimate depictions of smaller groups. The emphasis in the present work is on the musicians themselves, their pictorial interplay reflecting their harmonic relationships, and the audience. In applying his theories of couleur-lumière to the composition Dufy further enhances the mood of the music: 'Dufy reproduces the calm atmosphere of chamber music with consummate artistry. His series of Quintets (between 1946 and 1948) assumes the colour of each of the musical variations. Violet, red, blue, orange: the arrangement of the quintet is painted monotonally. Dufy understands music so well that he succeeds, through the subtle play of his style, colour and lighting effects, in arousing our emotions through his lyrical interpretation' (ibid., p. 298).

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

The Red Houses of Sainte-Adresse
The Red Houses of Sainte-Adresse
The Red Orchestra
The Red Orchestra
The Regatta
The Regatta
The Regatta 1924
The Regatta 1924
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.