The Basket
Raoul Dufy
1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 53.5 × 65.1 cm (21 1/16 × 25 5/8 in.) framed: 74.93 × 86.04 × 7.62 cm (29 1/2 × 33 7/8 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.22
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...