Raoul Dufy, the miracle of the imagination

par Philippe  -  6 Janvier 2025, 10:25

Raoul Dufy, the miracle of the imagination

Exhibition at the Fine - Arts Museum Jules Chéret until September 28th 2025, 33 avenue des Baumettes, 06000 Nice, daily open except Mondays (11am - 6pm), phone : 04.92.15.28.28, ticket full price : 10€.

 

Known by his shiny colors, the joyful of his topics but also his doubts the painter Raoul Dufy creates his own art style on the French Riviera. At the beginning he asks himself how using light and colors. During his studies at the Léon Bonnet studio where Raoul Dufy learns impressionnists and others he improves a huge feeling when he watches a Matisse canvas names "Luxe, calme et volupté" (1905). The simplificated forms and the lightning and agressive colors stays something potent for him. Dufy integrate also the Cézanne working with the falling of perspective and the part playing by geometry inside compositions and put all together between 1919 to 1922 in Vence. With his supple way of making and the highlighting landscapes towards details Raoul Dufy will become famous. During the 1910's he didn't earn money and must do patterns for French factories (Bianchini and Ferrier, d'Aubusson) attracted by Middle - Age tales or vanguard models. Raoul Dufy gives a huge importance to studios at the end of the 1930's. At this time he leaves then French capitale for finding a safe place in the south of France. Fascinated by sea, beaches and harbors he represents the seaside univers towards triangle introducing mythology from Greece like Aphrodite de goddess of love. Witness of his time and following parties Raoul Dufy stays with his wife Emilienne in Nice the city she comes from following local celebrations and improving feelings for le casino de la Jetée Promenade building in an oriental architecture. Distroying in 1944 this building will be represent in many Dufy canvas. At the end the exhibition curator tributes the Raoul Dufy's wife Emilienne because she has keep watching the collection and help to construct her husband notoriety.

Raoul Dufy inside his studio

Raoul Dufy inside his studio

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