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    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Visit of the English Squadron to Le Havre - 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 visite de l'éscadre anglaise au Havre, 1927-1929
    gouache and watercolor on paper

    Le Havre, located at the point where the Seine estuary opens out into the English Channel, was the primary port of entry into Normandy and on to Paris from points in the United Kingdom northern Europe. From the bluffs overlooking the coast one could look out across the harbor to the jetty and lighthouse on the left. The high horizon formed by the perimeter of the bay divided the scene into broad bands of sky, sea and strand, in effect providing a flat tapestry-like expanse that was an ideal backdrop for Dufy's depiction of a nautical fête.

    Dufy's work in textile design had been a central aspect of his career since 1910, when he met the fashion designer Paul Poiret and subsequently worked with the design firm of Bianchini-Férier. In 1925, on the occasion of the Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels, Poiret commissioned Dufy to provide fabric wall-hangings for one of his barges moored alongside the Quai d'Orsay. Dufy made the basis of each design three individually colored horizontal bands of fabric represening generalized fore-, middle- and backgrounds, Dufy was able to give the impression of spatial depth in the wall-hangings, while at the same time underscoring the essential flatness of his designs.

    Dufy makes use of the same principle in his paintings and watercolors. To this he applied his concept of 'couleur-lumière'. Dufy wrote, "The colour captures the light that forms and animates the group as a whole. Every object or group of objects is placed within its own area of light and shade, receiving its share of reflections and being subjected to the arrangement decided by the artist" (quoted in D. Perez-Tibi, Dufy, New York, 1989, p. 150).

    Dufy found corroboration of these ideas in the way the 17th century painter Claude Lorrain treated light in his idealized classical landscapes. Following the example of Lorrain, Dufy does not depict what he actually sees, but by drawing upon his perceptions at the scene he recomposes and invents the landscape, investing it with component tonalities that he formulates subjectively. Traditional perspective is abandoned, distance may be telescoped, and objects in the composition may appear in any scale the artist chooses.

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Other paintings by Raoul Dufy:

The Violin (Le violon) 1948
The Violin (Le violon) 1948
The Violin Concerto
The Violin Concerto
The Walk in the Woods
The Walk in the Woods
The Wheat Field
The Wheat Field
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.