Mon Docteur Le Vin: Watercolors by Raoul Dufy (Henry McBride Series in Modernism & Modernity)
My French Easel (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
This article was first published in my newsletter "Notes From My French Easel" – September 2009. Follow the link to receive this free monthly newsletter . Raoul Dufy was a French painter born in Le Havre (Normandy – France) in 1877, where he was able to study the work of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre Museum. He attended the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in...
Greenridge Chronicles (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
I was doing some blog hopping a while back, seeing what all the homeschoolers were getting up to this summer, when I came across this post at Melissa Wiley's blog. I almost did a double take because I'd just been reading this post at the Camp Creek blog and thinking "we have to get a field kit together." If I wasn't stuck up here in Canada and frequently subject to mysterious "border...
Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Jane Berlandina was born in 1898 in Nice, France. She initiated her artistic studies in France at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs. She soon became a pupil of the famed Raoul Dufy. With Dufy’s influence Berlandina began exploring abstraction, long before it had become the predominant method of painting. Berlandina moved to New York City before settling in California in 1931 where she began...
Hatch: The Design Public ® Blog (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
Last week I was feeling uninspired and started the week off with some favorite works by Paul Klee. It seemed like a very good way to start off the worst day of the week, so today I’m going to treat you to some inspiration compliments of Raoul Dufy. Speaking of, did anyone manage to make [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 19/07/2009
JACKSON, MISS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) brings its exhibition schedule full circle with the August 1 opening of the 2009 Mississippi Invitational. Following on the heels of the French-themed “Raoul Dufy” exhibition, the Mississippi Invitational highlights the artwork of ten artists who are currently working in the Magnolia State.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/03/2009
JACKSON, MS.- The Mississippi Museum of Art is further defining its role as both a conceptual arts venue and a key contributor to Mississippi’s economic development efforts with an astonishing exhibition of the varied and remarkable accomplishments of French master Raoul Dufy. Visitors to Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty through July 5, 2009, will see the extraordinary influence of the creative...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
October is smack in the middle of marching band season, so today’s post features the 1949 lithograph “The Band.” The artist behind “The Band” is Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), a French artist requested by reader cinthya. 1. Raoul Dufy began his artistic career through night classes at his local École des Beaux-Arts. During the day, he was [...]
Your Daily Art (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Raoul Dufy , Regatta at Cowes , 1934, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. I could not resist posting this, it is so wonderful with the colors and the boats. Dufy is one of the fauve painters and each piece of his is better than the last.
The Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Y ou've got to love Raoul Dufy 's (1877-1953) impressionist riots. All style from a great period in Modernism. From a private collection, on paper: "Two Bridges Over East River," New York city-scape under the hammer at Sotheby's London on 26th June. Estimate: 40,000—60,000 GBP.
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Like most consummate stylists Christopher Wool tends to get away with aesthetic murder. He shares with artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler and Raoul Dufy an ability to pull off suave-looking paintings with a display of effort so seemingly minimal as to be irreverent. Mr. Wool began [...]
Videos