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Raoul Dufy was born on 3 June 1877 in Le Havre. At the age of sixteen, Dufy began taking art classes at l’École municipale des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, studying under Charles Lhuillier. Whilst studying, he met Othon Friesz, who would become a lifelong friend. In 1900, Dufy received a scholarship to study at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, joining Friesz who had started there in 1897. Taught by Léon Bonnat, the leading official painter of the time, Dufy found the academic atmosphere uninspiring and turned to Ambrose Vollard and Paul Durand-Ruel’s galleries, where he was enamoured by the work of the Impressionists, in particular Pissarro and Monet. Dufy settled in Montmartre, where his neighbours included Picasso, Derain and Utrillo.
In 1903, Dufy exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants. Dufy’s practice underwent radical change two years later after he saw Matisse’s Luxe, calme et volupté at the 1905 Salon des Indépendants, exclaiming that all the charms of Impressionism vanished as
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Raoul Dufy French, 1877-1953
Raoul Dufy was born in 1877 in Le Havre, France. His early art education came from days spent, along with his school friend Othon Friesz, studying paintings by Boudin in the La Herve museum. He received a scholarship in 1900 that provided for studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Dufy then worked as an illustrator, a fabric designer for Paul Poiret, a famous couturier, among other design work in theater and costume design.
A major mural commission, from the Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d’Électricité, was awarded to Dufy. It was for the 1937 World’s Fair Exhibition in Paris. Dufy titled the mural "La Fee Electricite”, and it was dedicated to the history and the significant role of electricity in the 20th century. Jacques Maroger, Dufy’s technical assistant during the project, had developed a new, quick drying medium that would give Dufy the translucence and vibrancy of watercolor but also allowed for quick work. This extraordinary mural, nearly 200’ x 30’, was completed
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(b Le Havre, 3 June 1877; d Forcalquier, 23 Mar. 1953). French painter, graphic artist, and designer. His early work was Impressionist in style, but he became a convert to Fauvism in 1905 after seeing Matisse's Luxe, calme et volupté (‘this miracle of creative imagination in colour and line’) at the Salon des Indépendants. He exhibited with the Fauves in 1906 and 1907, but in 1908 he worked with Braque at L'Estaque and abandoned Fauvism for a more sober style influenced by Cézanne. However, he soon returned to a lighter style and in the next few years developed the highly distinctive personal manner for which he became famous. It is characterized, in both oils and watercolours, by rapid calligraphic drawing on backgrounds of bright, thinly washed colour and was well suited to the scenes of luxury and pleasure Dufy favoured.
He had achieved considerable success by the mid-1920s and the accessibility and joie de vivre of his work helped to popularize modern art. In 1910 Dufy made friends with the
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