Regatta at Henley
1937
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 89.2 x 116.2 cm (35 1/8 x 45 3/4 in.) framed: 111.7 x 138.7 x 5.7 cm (44 x 54 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.31
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...