The Tennis Party
Raoul Dufy
c. 1920
Medium
brush and black ink on paperboard
Dimensions
sheet: 70.7 x 47.1 cm (27 13/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke
Accession Number
1998.64.1
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...