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  • Raoul Dufy
    Jun 3, 1877 - Mar 23, 1953
  • The Window in Nice - 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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  • 1938
    Oil on canvas

    Dufy visited the South of France frequently in the 1920s and 1930s, staying mainly in Nice, his wife's place of birth. Here he was fascinated with the strength and intensity of the light, much as he had been on his trip to Sicily in the early 1920s and during his first visit to North Africa in 1926. The light of the south permitted him to reconsider his pictorial surface by rearranging it into broad areas of colour which are distributed across the composition. 'Light is the soul of colour', he wrote, '...without light, colour is lifeless' (letter to A. Lhote, 1943, quoted in J. Lassaigne, Raoul Dufy, Geneva 1951, p. 30). Dufy's notion of couleur-lumière enabled him to re-invent the light and distribute it across distinct planes, placing more emphasis on tonal relations and their equivalent in light than on true colour.

    The present work depicts the Gulf of Nice, framed by the shutters and balustrade of a balcony. This pictorial conceit, so often a preoccupation for artists concerned with the definition of space, was one that Dufy had explored to great effect at different points in his career, not least in the early days. The iconographic element of the window allows Dufy to link the interior with the exterior and to further create unity of the pictorial plane. The open door acts as a frame for the landscape beyond and gives a greater sense of depth to the coast stretching away from the surface of the work.

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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.