Vallauris
Raoul Dufy
1927/1928
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View on museum website →Medium
watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 50.5 x 65.2 cm (19 7/8 x 25 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection
Accession Number
2011.60.21
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...