Raoul Dufy

Raoul Dufy ( born June 3, 1877 in Le Havre ( Normandy ), † 23 March 1953 Forcalquier ) was a French painter of Fauvism.

Life

Dufy first attended evening classes at the art school in Le Havre before he got a scholarship from his hometown to the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris. From there Dufy joined as a student in the studio of Léon Bonnat.

A painting by Henri Matisse converted him to Fauvism. In 1909 he attended together with his friend and colleague Émile - Othon Friesz Munich and came under the influence of Paul Cézanne.

Since the painting is not provided him with the necessary income to survive, to Dufy earned his living by ceramics, woodblock prints and designs for tapestries. Only when he, he learned the mid-1920s and then in 1937 his style changed a bit and came from a rather lighter elegant art into an expressive representation monumental recognition. So he could make for the Paris World Fair in 1937 the " Pavillon de la lumière " ( pavilion of light or electricity) decorative, he painted the picture of 600 m² time the largest in the world.

Some of his works have been exhibited posthumously at the documenta 1 (1955) and the documenta III in Kassel in 1964. His brother Jean Dufy (1888-1964) was also a noted painter.

Works

Painting

  • Billboard in Trouville (1906, Musée National d' Art Moderne )
  • The Racecourse Deauville (1930, Musée du Luxembourg )
  • Hommage à Mozart (1952, Web Gallery Private Art Collection)
  • Nature morte dans la mer (1925, Web Gallery Private Art Collection)

Graphic arts

  • Woodcuts to Le cortège d' Orphée bestiaire ou le ( bestiary or the Orpheus train ) by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1911,
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