As part of our GREEN Spring palettes exhibition, let’s spend one minute on video with Raoul Dufy, with both Visite de l’Escadre anglaise au Havre and Le champ de blé.
Such joy emanates from this gouache, Visit of the English Squadron to Le Havre (Visite de l’Escadre anglaise au Havre)!
“I know the sea as a bather, as a sailor and as a painter. It is as a painter that I prefer it!”
His favorite subject of nautical festivals was a pretext for the artist to express this passion and create an explosion of color. With joyous, quick brushstrokes, he affixed the myriad of colors of the pavilions, sails, and rails onto a blue and emerald green sea to depict the happy atmosphere of the port.
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953)
Visite de l’Escadre anglaise au Havre
Circa 1927-1929
Gouache on paper
Signed lower right
33,5 x 49 cm
The Normandy countryside also attracted the attention of this native of Le Havre. The contrast of the wheat fields yellowed by the sun, the heavy and stormy skies and the green vegetation of the trees and meadows fascinated him so much, that he included the theme of harvests in the immense setting of the Electricity Fairy designed for the International Exhibition of 1937.
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953)
Le champ de blé
1935
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
54 x 65 cm
Born in Le Havre, Raoul Dufy began in the Beaux-Arts with Friesz and continued in Paris.
After a brief impressionist period, he became a fauve in 1906.
Influenced by Cezanne, he will abandon Fauvism in 1908…
Exhibition from March 14 to April 30, 2022
Works by
Jean ARP
Charles CAMOIN
Henri-Edmond CROSS
Sonia DELAUNAY
Raoul DUFY
Francis GRUBER
František KUPKA
André MARCHAND
Louis MARCOUSSIS
Albert MARQUET
Joan MIRÓ
Ker-Xavier ROUSSEL
Paul SIGNAC
Sam SZAFRAN
Maurice UTRILLO
Geer van VELDE
Édouard VUILLARD.
