Raoul DUffy the sailors
Raoul DUFY (1877-1953)
"Sailors on the coast" (1925) Drawing-Watercolor, Watercolor, gouache / paper, 48 x 64 cm Signed lower right "Raoul Dufy"
About the artist
Raoul Ernest Joseph Dufy born June 3, 1877 in Le Havre and died March 23, 1953 in Forcalquier is a painter, designer, engraver, book illustrator, ceramicist, designer of fabrics, tapestries and furniture, interior decorator, public spaces and French theater. In 1900, thanks to a scholarship, he entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, at the Léon Bonnat workshop where he found Othon Friesz. He draws a lot. His first exhibition at the Salon des Artistes Français took place in 1901, and then exhibited in 1903 at the Salon des Indépendants. The painter Maurice Denis bought him a canvas. He painted the surroundings of Le Havre a lot, and in particular the beach of Sainte-Adresse made famous by Eugène Boudin and Claude Monet.