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Raoul Dufy Art

French, 1877-1953

Raoul Dufy was a renowned French Fauvist painter, famous for his colorful, decorative designs. He was born in Le Havre, Normandy, in 1877. Dufy had a simple upbringing, leaving school at 14 to work at a Brazilian coffee-importing company. His formal artistic education began when he was eighteen at Le Havre's École des Beaux-Arts, where he took evening art classes. He continued to paint within the purlieu of Le Havre and was greatly inspired by the Impressionist landscape painters Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1900, after serving in the military for one year, Dufy won a scholarship to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Dufy began painting watercolors of the Norman landscapes but was soon widely celebrated for his brightly colored and bold contoured paintings – in dialogue with the Fauvist style. He remained faithful to Fauvism until Paul Cézanne’s work guided him to embrace a subtler aesthetic. This new mode of sobriety saw his work return to a lighter style, which he celebrated through rapid inscription-like drawings over vivid backgrounds of color washes.

The rise of Cubism in Paris during the first two decades of the 20th century influenced him to develop a systematic approach that was later known as stenographics. Using this he experimented with foreshortened perspective, thin washes of paint and skeletal structures. In this style, he portrayed the lavish scenes of the French Riviera, leisureliness of the period, and chic revelries. Dufy was also fascinated by other amusements such as regattas, horse races and concerts and loved to depict the excitement and commotion of the crowds.

Dufy had his first exhibition in 1901 at the Salon des Artistes Français, following a string of exhibitions over the following years. In 1906 he took part in the Cercle de l’Art Moderne Exhibition in Le Havre with artists Georges Braque, Henri Matisse and Henri Charles Manguin. Dufy was given his first retrospective in 1921 at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune and in 1932 his first painting was accepted into a national collection. He celebrated two large commissions for the 1937 Exposition Internationals des Artes et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. The most notable of the two was the adornment for the Pavilion of Light and Electricity. He was commissioned with the task to illustrate the history of electricity from the classical era to its current position in 20th century developments. He painted La Fée électricité, a huge fresco which was donated to the Musée d’Art Moderne in 1964. In 1952 he represented France at the 26th Venice Biennale, where he won the Gran Premio. A year later he died aged 75, of polyarthritis, an illness he had been suffering from since 1937.

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(Biography provided by Stern Pissarro Gallery)

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Artist: Raoul Dufy
The Fountain of Venice, Etching by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Fountain of Venice Raoul Dufy French (1877–1953) Date: c 1951 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of CXIX/CCXXV Image Size: 9 x 7 inches Frame Size: 17 x 14.25 inches
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1950s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

The Band, Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) Title: The Band Year: 1949 Medium: lithograph, signed in the plate Size: 19 x 29.5 inches Frame Size: 25.5 x 36 inches Printed by Baynard Pr...
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1940s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Les Blés (Wheat Field), Signed Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Blés (Wheat Field) Raoul Dufy, French (1877–1953) Date: 1933 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 27/200 Size: 16 x 20.5 in. (40.64 x 52.07 cm)
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1930s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Orchestra : Intermission - Lithograph (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Orchestra : Intermission Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in) Excellent condition
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Summer : Harvest Time, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Very good condi...
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

1953 original exhibition poster by Raoul Dufy at Musée National d'Art Moderne
By Raoul Dufy
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1953 original exhibition poster by Raoul Dufy for the Musée National d'Art Moderne is a vibrant and captivating piece that captures the essence of Dufy's iconic style and celebra...
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1950s Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Post Impressionist Lithograh entitled “LE HAVRE” by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
This losely rendered and highly narrative Post Impressionist Lithograh entitled “LE HAVRE” by Raoul Dufy originates from France, Circa 1930. A striking composition, this lithograph f...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor & Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red, blue and green. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensions: Framed: 19.5"x19.5" Unframed: 12"x12" Provenance: Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001 SF Fall Show Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
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1920s Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Colorful Bouquet of Flowers - Original lithograph - 1965
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Colorful Bouquet of Flowers Stone lithograph in colors Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) INFORMATION : Edited for the portfolio...
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1960s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Sailboats - Lithograph - Printed signature (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Sailboats Stone lithograph after a painting (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 50 x 65 cm (c. 20 x 26 in) Excellent condition
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1960s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Normandy Countryside - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Normandy Countryside , 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent condition
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Original SNCF French Travel Poster Normandie by Raoul Dufy 1954
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This very attractive scenic poster was created by the French Railway Authority in the post World War II era to promote visitor traffic to the French countryside in Normandie. Located...
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1950s Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Summer Garden : a Bunch of Flowers - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Summer Garden : a Bunch of Flowers, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Ex...
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Les Champs-Élysées, Place de la Concorde, A La gloire à Paris, Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin Canson et Montgolfier paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published by L'Imprimerie Daragnès, Paris; printed by Jean Gabriel Daragnès, Paris, ...
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1930s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

Bunch of Flowers - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Bunch of Flowers, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 37.5 cm (c. 11 x 14.8 inch) Very good condition
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Fountain of Venice, Etching by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Fountain of Venice Raoul Dufy French (1877–1953) Date: c 1951 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of CXIX/CCXXV Image Size: 9 x 7 inches Frame Size: 17 x 14.25 inches
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1950s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

Raoul Dufy “ La Baie des Anges a Nice et le Casino” 1928 gouache on paper
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
La Baie des Anges a Nice et le Casino is a lovely gouache on paper from 1928. The work is fully authenticated by Fanny Guillon-Laffaille and is listed in the Raoul Dufy Catalogue Rai...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Chevaux de courses
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New Orleans, LA
Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 French Chevaux de courses (Racing Horses) Signed and dated "Raoul Dufy 1929" (lower right) Watercolor and gouache on Arches paper Raoul Dufy's fascination wi...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Watercolor, Gouache

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts a study of apples and pears. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensio...
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1920s Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Gouache

Fauvist Still Life with Peaches and Cherries - Lithograph (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Peaches and Cherries Lithograph Signed in the plate On paper 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in) Excellent condition
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

'La Danse' (Dance) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Danse' (Dance), woodcut, 1910. A proof impression before the second edition of 220 in 1953; with the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower right margin; the blind stamp 'GG' in the lower left sheet corner. Annotated 'E/Z' in pencil, beneath the estate stamp; and 'bois original' in the margin, lower left. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (3 1/2 to 6 3/4 inches); slight toning at the bottom and right sheet edges, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Image size 12 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (313 x 318 mm); sheet size 19 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (502 x 654 mm). Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nasher Museum of Art (Duke University), Toledo Art Museum. From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Peche' (Fishing), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Peche' and 'L'amore'. Collections: Brooklyn Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Cleveland Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Minneapolis Art...
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1910s Cubist Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Sunset on the Vineyards - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Sunset on the Vineyards, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent con...
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Band, Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) Title: The Band Year: 1949 Medium: lithograph, signed in the plate Size: 19 x 29.5 inches Frame Size: 25.5 x 36 inches Printed by Baynard Pr...
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1940s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy's wife by Raoul Dufy, gouache on paper, 1915, French Fauvist portrait
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A striking and very intimate work created by the renowned Fauvist artist Raoul Dufy in the early 20th century, depicting his wife in 1915. This artwork is a rare and very precious ge...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Gouache

Decheance de al Buveuse d'Eau(Downfall of a Lady Teetotaler)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Love - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY The Love, c. 1910 Original woodcut Signed stamp of the artist's studio Numbered on /220 On vellum 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch) Excellent condition
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1910s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Still Life - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. Not signed and not numbered, as issued. The artwork is depicted through conf...
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1920s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Projet de Fleurs - Fauvist Flowers Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work flowers in red and blues with green foliage against a yellow and white stripped background. Dimensions: Framed: 25"x20" Unframed: 18"x13" Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
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1920s Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Gouache

Landscape In Morocco - Lithograph (Mourlot)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Landscape In Morocco, 1965 Lithograph (Mourlot workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.8 x 9.4 in) INFORMATION : Lithograph cre...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

"Racecourse-Champ de Courses-Rennplatz" Poster, No. 1664
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Copyright by Stehli Freres S. A., Efiteurs, Zurich. Printed in Switzerland. Measures 17.5 x 21.25 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Fair Condition-discoloration/wrinkling/marki...
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Late 20th Century Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

La Promenade en Bateau - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1930s
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
La Promenade en Bateau is an original modern artwork realized by Raoul Dufy in 1930s Original Lithograph. Good conditions. Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) He was a French artist and design...
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1930s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Le Bestiaire ou Cortege Orphee - Rare Book by Raoul Dufy - 1919
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
One of 50 copies on Japon ancient. Very important and rare book illustrated by Raoul Dufy. Perfect conditions, hard binding. Reduced edition of the original "Bestiaire". 
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1910s Surrealist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper

The Chair - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
The Chairis a vintage lithograph realized after Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. Not signed and not numbered, as issued. The artwork is depicted through confid...
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1920s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Still Life with Fruits - Original Lithograph
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Still Life with Fruits, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Excellent cond...
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Dance - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY The Dance, c .1910 Original woodcut Signed with stamp of the artist's studio Numbered on /220 Titled in the board 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch) Excellent condition
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1910s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Action de Vin sur Le Moral (How Wine Affects the Morale)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Les Blés (Wheat Field), Signed Impressionist Lithograph by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Blés (Wheat Field) Raoul Dufy, French (1877–1953) Date: 1933 Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 27/200 Size: 16 x 20.5 in. (40.64 x 52.07 cm)
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1930s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Serpent, Impressionist Woodcut by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - The Serpent, Year: c. 1911, Medium: Woodcut on laid paper, Image Size: 8 x 7.5 inches, Size: 11.25 x 8.75 in. (28.58 x 22.23 cm), Description: Fr...
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1910s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Rest - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Rest is a vintage lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
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1920s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

The Fisherman (Angling) - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY The Fisherman (Angling) Original woodcut Signed stamp of the artist's studio Justified Artist Proof (aside the edition numbered on /220) Titled in the board 50.5 x 65.4 c...
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Late 20th Century Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Ouvert la Nuit - Rare Book by Raoul Dufy - 1924
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 320 copies including 6 illustrations by R. Dufy, A. Favory, R. De La Fresnaye, A. Lhote, L.A. Moreau, A. D. de Segonzac. One of 305 copies on Velin d'Arches. Original soft editorial cover...
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1920s Surrealist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper

Wine as a Remedy for Convalescents
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Fleurs et Papillons - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor & Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red and butterflies in blues, yellows, black and white. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensions: Framed: 17"x27" Unframed: 10"x20" Provenance: Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001 SF Fall Show Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
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1920s Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Still Life - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1920s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Nautical Festival Fête nautique - France Nautical Dufy & Villon Collab
By Raoul Dufy
Located in London, GB
RAOUL DUFY 1877-1953 Le Havre 1877-1953 Forcalquier (French) and JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963 (Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875 - 1963 Paris (French) Tit...
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1920s Raoul Dufy Art

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Aquatint

Springtime in Paris (detail) The Three-Quarter Coach. New York Graphic Society
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Copyright New York Graphic Society, Fine Art Publishers. Printed in Holland. Measures 18 x 22 inches and is unframed. The piece is in Good Condition-discoloration/wrinkling consisten...
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Late 20th Century Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Tea Time - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Tea Time is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920. Good conditions. Edition of 110. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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1920s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Le Vin Contre la Depression Nerveuse et l'Anemie
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

"Anemones" Floral Silk Scarf
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Austin, TX
By Raoul Dufy 34.5" x 34.5" Silk Screen Print on wearable scarf
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1950s Fauvist Raoul Dufy Art

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Silk, Screen

Tragedie, Comédie jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud-by Raoul Dufy, 1954-1956
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
'My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly." This original color lithograph was created by Raoul Dufy for his friend Jean-Louis Barrault in anticipation of a U.S. theatrical tour...
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1950s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Wine and Childhood Aliments
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy - Church - Original Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Raoul Dufy - Church - Original Etching Dimensions: 13 x 10". Edition of 200 1940 Edition Les Bibliophiles du Palais, Paris Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1940s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

Le Vin est Necessaire aux Artistes
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly”. -Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy’s depictions for an instant charmer of a "medical book" illustrates the myriad benefits of wine, while being sp...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Woman with Funny Hat - Stone lithograph, 1930
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY Woman with Funny Hat, 1930 Original stone lithograph Unsigned On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch) Excellent condition
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1930s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Lithograph

Raoul Dufy Fauvist Art Deco Nude Painting
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Dallas, TX
Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953) Nu allongé sur canapé, circa 1939 China ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper laid on board Sight: 16 x 19.75 inches (40.6 x 50.2 cm) Signed lower righ...
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1930s Art Deco Raoul Dufy Art

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Paper

Reclining Nude
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
Reclining Woman by Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) Etching on paper 5 ½ x 7 ½ inches unframed (13.716 x 19.05 cm) 13 ⅝ x 15 inches framed (34.6202 x 38.1 cm) Signed on bottom left Edition of ...
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20th Century Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

The Hunt - Original woodcut - Signed
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Raoul DUFY The Hunt, c. 1910 Original woodcut Signed with the stamp of the artist's studio Numbered on /220 Titled in the board 50.5 x 65.4 cm (c. 19.6 x 25.5 inch) Excellent condi...
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1910s Modern Raoul Dufy Art

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Woodcut

Circa 1918 original poster by Raoul Dufy - The End of the Great War
By Raoul Dufy
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1918 original poster by Raoul Dufy, titled "La Fin de la Grande Guerre" (The End of the Great War), is a significant historical artifact commemorating the conclusion of Wor...
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1910s Raoul Dufy Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Éloge de Raoul Dufy, Impressionist Etching by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Eloge de Raoul Dufy, Year: circa 1930, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 28/31, Image Size: 10 x 8.75 inches, Size: 12.75 ...
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1930s Impressionist Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses) Edition: Proof on Van Gelder paper Unsigned (as usual for this image) Edition: unknown Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris (?) References: Johnson 25...
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1920s French School Raoul Dufy Art

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Etching

1952 original poster Parade de fête nationale by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1952 original poster Parade de fête nationale by Raoul Dufy is a vivid and lively piece of mid-20th century art that captures the vibrant energy and spirit of French national cel...
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1950s Raoul Dufy Art

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

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Find a wide variety of authentic Raoul Dufy art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Raoul Dufy in lithograph, etching, paper and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Raoul Dufy art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, and Henry Moore. Raoul Dufy art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $77 and tops out at $610,250, while the average work can sell for $756.
Questions About Raoul Dufy Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertJune 6, 2024
    No one knows for sure how many paintings Raoul Dufy painted. However, more than 160 of his works are known. Some of his most famous pieces include Boats at Martigues, Bathers, The Mexican Musicians, The Kessler Family on Horseback and Regatta at Cowes. On 1stDibs, explore a range of Raoul Dufy art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Painter, drawer, designer and printmaker Raoul Dufy was greatly inspired by impressionists like Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet. In later years, he took inspiration from Henri Matisse’s Luxe, Calme et Volupté. And even later in his work, he evolved again after connecting with the work of Paul Cézanne and Cubism. After this era, he developed his own style and distinctive artistic approach. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.
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    To identify a lithograph print, begin by conducting a reverse image search. By taking a photo with your mobile device and performing a reverse image search, you may quickly find a match and learn the artist, title and other characteristics of your lithograph. Should this method of identification yield no results, look for an artist's signature or publisher's information on the front or back of the piece. Researching the maker or publisher via trusted online resources can help you learn more about your print. For help with the process, consult a certified appraiser or experienced art dealer. On 1stDibs, shop a wide range of lithograph prints.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    To paint, Raoul Dufy spread thin layers of quick-drying paint over a white background. Then, he would sketch objects over top using curvy, wavy lines. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Raoul Dufy art from some of the world’s top sellers.

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