Raoul Dufy
The White Sail, 1906
Not on view
2 further works by Dufy
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Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Raoul Dufy 06
Inv.-no. MB-Duf-01
The Fauve painter Raoul Dufy handled oil paint with the lightness of watercolors. The reflections of the masts are rendered with meandering brushstrokes on the agitated surface of the water. The forms of the Norman village in the background and the horse-drawn carriage on the quay are only alluded to. The motif links Dufy’s composition to Paul Signac’s The Port at Sunset, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez), although the styles of painting are entirely different.
Raoul Dufy, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, April 18–June 28, 2009; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, July 4–August 16, 2009; JR Kyoto Isetan Museum, Kyoto, August 29–October 4, 2009; Oita Art Museum, Oita, October 23–December 13, 2009
Modern Art Classics: Liebermann, Munch, Nolde, Kandinsky, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 23–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
n.d., Galerie Bernheim-Jeune,
Paris
June 30, 1987, Sotheby’s, London, lot 42
May 2009, Art trade
Maurice Laffaille, Raoul Dufy: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Geneva 1972, no. 119, p. 112, ill. p. 112
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