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Lot Essay
This work is to be included in the second supplement of the Raoul Dufy catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint being prepared by Madame Fanny Guillon-Laffaille.
Born at Le Havre in 1877, Raoul Dufy was a French painter in oil and watercolour, illustrator and designer. He began painting in 1892 and was awarded a scholarship in 1900 to study in Paris under Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Dufy was at first influenced at by the Impressionists then subsequently the Fauve style of Matisse prompting him to adopt a richer palette from circa 1905 as well as being temporarily seduced by the early Cubist work of Cézanne and Braque. Dufy held his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, in 1906 and throughout his career he painted various subjects, from regattas, concerts to landscapes and racecourses in brilliant colours and with calligraphic brushwork. In 1952 he was awarded the Gran Premio per la Pittura (main painting prize) at the Venice Biennale. Dufy died at Forcalquier, in the Basses-Alpes in 1953.
Born at Le Havre in 1877, Raoul Dufy was a French painter in oil and watercolour, illustrator and designer. He began painting in 1892 and was awarded a scholarship in 1900 to study in Paris under Léon Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Dufy was at first influenced at by the Impressionists then subsequently the Fauve style of Matisse prompting him to adopt a richer palette from circa 1905 as well as being temporarily seduced by the early Cubist work of Cézanne and Braque. Dufy held his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, in 1906 and throughout his career he painted various subjects, from regattas, concerts to landscapes and racecourses in brilliant colours and with calligraphic brushwork. In 1952 he was awarded the Gran Premio per la Pittura (main painting prize) at the Venice Biennale. Dufy died at Forcalquier, in the Basses-Alpes in 1953.