Raoul Dufy. Fabrics and creations.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 19150 |
| Format | 24.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 216 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Troyes, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461612069 |
A native of Le Havre, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) remains one of the most significant French artists of the 20th century. An outstanding painter and draftsman, he was interested in fashion as well as ceramics, tapestry, furniture... From the man who said: "my eyes are made to erase what is ugly," a collector, definitively won over by the artist, has gathered more than two hundred of his works. After presentations in recent years in the United States, Japan, and Europe, this collection is being shown for the first time in France at the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes (from February 28 to June 7, 2015) and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Carcassonne (from July 3 to October 3, 2015). Dufy's textile work constitutes the singular focus of the exhibition. A master of both line and color, the artist, in sovereign arabesques, multiplied armfuls of flowers or foliage, antique scenes or figures of modern life, without forgetting abstract compositions of great originality. From a master in full possession of his means, we readily recognize, in the thousands of drawings delivered to the famous couturier Paul Poiret or to the Lyon silk house Bianchini-Férier, the taste for series that he also expressed in his painted and drawn work. "The painter of pleasure," according to The author and collector Gertrude Stein is one of those who has most abolished the boundaries between easel painting and decorative arts.
A native of Le Havre, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) remains one of the most significant French artists of the 20th century. An outstanding painter and draftsman, he was interested in fashion as well as ceramics, tapestry, furniture... From the man who said: "my eyes are made to erase what is ugly," a collector, definitively won over by the artist, has gathered more than two hundred of his works. After presentations in recent years in the United States, Japan, and Europe, this collection is being shown for the first time in France at the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes (from February 28 to June 7, 2015) and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Carcassonne (from July 3 to October 3, 2015). Dufy's textile work constitutes the singular focus of the exhibition. A master of both line and color, the artist, in sovereign arabesques, multiplied armfuls of flowers or foliage, antique scenes or figures of modern life, without forgetting abstract compositions of great originality. From a master in full possession of his means, we readily recognize, in the thousands of drawings delivered to the famous couturier Paul Poiret or to the Lyon silk house Bianchini-Férier, the taste for series that he also expressed in his painted and drawn work. "The painter of pleasure," according to The author and collector Gertrude Stein is one of those who has most abolished the boundaries between easel painting and decorative arts.