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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • Theatre Curtain for the Palm Beach Ballet - 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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Theatre Curtain for the Palm Beach Ballet
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  • 1933
    gouache and watercolor on paper

    Fanny Guillon-Laffaille has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
    This gouache is a study for a stage set design that the Comte Etienne de Beaumont, a leading patron of the theater and a director, commissioned from Dufy in 1933 for the ballet Palm Beach. The piece was set to a libretto Réné Kerdyck, with music by Jean Fran?aix. Léonide Massine choreographed the dances for the Ballets-russes de Monte-Carlo. The backdrop of this plein-air ballet is the beach at Cannes, seen through an awning and verandah of the casino "Palm Beach." This setting was ideally suited to the flattened space and panoramic formats that were the hallmarks of Dufy's pictorial style. This subject, moreover, was the artist's forte--he had depicted nautical imagery in his work from the early years of his career, when as a young painter he featured in his paintings the resort areas and seaside attractions in and around his native Le Havre.

    Dufy provided the costumes as well, creating colorful bathing suits accessorized by flowing scarves, which echoed the whorls of the central shell and the motion of the sea. Palm Beach was premiered at the Théatre des Champs Elysees, Paris, on 8 June 1934, and two years it was performed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

The Workshop on Place Arago
The Workshop on Place Arago
The Yellow Console with a Violin
The Yellow Console with a Violin
Theatre in Martigues
Theatre in Martigues
Three characters having tea in the Perpignan workshop
Three characters having tea in the Perpignan workshop
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.