Raoul DUFY - Drawing and autograph manuscript

Raoul DUFY (1877-1953) Double-sided autograph manuscript and pencil drawing. Atelier Raoul Dufy stamp in the center of the back. Dimensions: 21 x 27 cm Dufy’s manuscript explaining in detail his creation process. “For the upper part of the composition, we have to forget the point of view“ from afar ”. lay the color flat and draw widely. Thus the distance of the meanders of the Seine in the right part of the Ile de France and especially for the upper left part, the sky La Hêve and Le Hâvre a cobalt blue and white tone lying widely, as in my composition of the regattas. clouds drawn either with blue or white settings but no white spots except for the large cumulus cloud appearing above the hêve. The gray sea, pearly white and black wave effects the newt in the gray part in the middle of the pointed black waves part forming a projected shadow of a large cloud imagined very high up the blue in the ... starting only at the height of the ship going up the Seine, the blue goes to the bottom of Honfleur "

Dimensions :
- Height : 27 cm