The Basin at Deauville
1937
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 81.5 x 100.3 cm (32 1/16 x 39 1/2 in.) framed: 104.1 x 122.9 x 5.7 cm (41 x 48 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.32
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...