La Danse
Raoul Dufy
c. 1910
Medium
woodcut in black on Chinese paper
Dimensions
image: 31.43 × 31.75 cm (12 3/8 × 12 1/2 in.) sheet: 46.36 × 57.79 cm (18 1/4 × 22 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.16.56
About the Artist
Raoul Dufy
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) was a French painter whose vivid, sunlit canvases became among the most recognizable expressions of joie de vivre in twentieth-century art. Born in Le Havre, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts there before moving to Paris, where he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and fell under the influence of the Impressionists. An early encounter with Henri M...