Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) - Scène de courses

\Artist: Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953)
Technique: Ink drawing\Signature: Artist's stamp\Dimensions: 23_30_2_cm
Raoul DUFY (1877 - 1953) “Scène de courses” Blue ink drawing. Height: 10. 4 x Length: 16. 4 cm Stamp on the bottom right Framed. With a copy of Madame Guillon Lafaille's certificate of authenticity, N° D89-384 This work is reproduced in the catalogue raisonné of Raoul Dufy's drawings Fast and secure shipping. Raoul Dufy was born on June 3, 1877 in Le Havre. First exhibition at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901 and at the Salon des Indépendants in 1903. He painted a lot around Le Havre, especially on the beach of Sainte-Adresse made famous by Eugène Boudin and Claude Monet. Influenced by Fauvism and in particular by Matisse's work, he worked with Friesz and Marquet on paintings of streets dressed with flags, village parties, and beaches. In 1908, realizing the importance of Cézanne during the great retrospective of 1907, he abandoned Fauvism and, that same year, went to L’Estaque, near Marseille with Georges Braque. They painted, often side by side, the same motifs as Cézanne. In 1911, he married Eugénie-Émilienne Brisson from Nice, and set up, with a friend, a small fabric decoration company, "La Petite Usine. ” There he printed his first drapes and fabrics. During his first stay in Vence in 1919, the colours of his paintings became more vivid and his drawing more baroque. In 1926, watching a little girl running on the wharf in Honfleur, he realized that the mind records colour faster than it records contouring. Thus, he will separate colours from drawing. In 1936-1937, he created, for the Electricity Pavilion of the International Exhibition, the largest painting in existence in the world: “La Fée Electricité” (624m2) . In 1937, Raoul Dufy began to experience the first ravages of a painful and debilitating disease: rheumatoid polyarthritis. The watercolours of the Châteaux de la Loire and Venice (many views of the city and the lagoon) were done in 1938. He also works on very large panels for the Palais de Chaillot: “La Seine, de Paris à la mer. ” In the early 1940s, he painted the large “Collioure” and “Le bel été” tapestry cartoons Dufy also excelled in designing sets and theatre costumes for the Comedie-Française. In his paintings, he gradually abandoned the wide stripes of colour for a dominant overall hue. In 1952, 261 works, as well as ceramics, tapestries, and books were gathered at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva. In addition, France sent 41 works to the Venice Biennale. There, he won the Grand Prix in Painting and offered the amount to an Italian painter and Charles Lapicque so that one could stay in France and the other in Venice. The painter Alfred Manessier will be the last Frenchman to win this prize. Dufy settled in Forcalquier in Provence. This is where he died on March 23, 1953. His last words were to ask his secretary to open the shutters of his room so he could see the mountain. After a temporary burial, the city of Nice offered a plot at the cemetery of Cimiez in 1956. #exclusiveartweek