Raoul DUFY - Les Armées Alliés, 1915 - Watercolor and Indian ink on paper
The Allied Armies, 1915
Watercolor and Indian ink on paper
unsigned, titled in brown ink pen "The Allied Armies" and captioned "Portugal, Italy, Serbia, Russia, Japan, England, Belgium, Algeria, France" in black ink in the center.
On the back, a red stamp with a paddle and the number "0396".
Dimensions: 52 x 40 cm / 56 x 43 cm (framed).
This work has a certificate from Madame Fanny Guillon-Laffaille N ° A19-9493 dated June 13, 2019.
This work will be reproduced in the supplement to the Catalog raisonné of Watercolors, Gouaches and Pastels by Raoul Dufy currently in preparation by Ms. Fanny Guillon-Laffaille.
Bibliography: "Epinal tricolore. The imagery Raoul Dufy (1914-1918) ", Departmental Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art of Epinal, June 16 - September 19, 2011. A similar work is reproduced under number 83 page 112 of the exhibition catalog but produced at Indian ink and heightened with white gouache on paper.
SEAL:
a poster (typographic photograph on paper) "Les Alliés" (The Allied Nations, this time on horseback) of dimensions 45 x 45 cm and a lithograph (typographic photograph on paper) in color of the same subject, titled "The Allied Nations pour le triomphe du droit et de la Liberté "in Arabic and French, measuring 45 x 76 cm.
Bibliography: "Epinal tricolore. The imagery Raoul Dufy (1914-1918) ", Departmental Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art of Epinal, June 16 - September 19, 2011. Reproduced respectively under number 32 page 78 and number 84 page 112 of the exhibition catalog .
Dimensions :
- Height : 40 cm
- Width : 52 cm
Raoul Dufy :
Brother of artist Jean Dufy, Raoul was born in 1877 in Le Havre where he spent his childhood. Fine Arts school student, he works in Paris since 1900, showing art fisrt an interest in impressionist and postimpressionist artists. Dufy works with Albert Marquet at Fécamp, Trouville and Le Havre. 1905 marks for him an evolution toward a new painting. The discovery of Matisse's "Luxe, calme et volupté" (1904) is at that time a revelation of his rupture from impressionism ("Jeanne in the flowers", 1907). Around 1909, his work becomes lighter, adding grace and humor ("The bois de Boulogne", 1909). The artist also reveales himself in the illustration of litterary works as "Bestiaire d'Orphée" by Apollinaire in 1910. He also shows interest in decorative art and creates a textile decoration compagny with Paul Poiret in 1911. After the second World War, his painting reachs his final style, characterized by a sharp drawing, pure colors with arbitrary contour, generally representing a crowd on tint areas of bright colors ("Race in Epson", 1935). After the war the artist pratice more and more watercolor and the end of his life leads his work toward a greatest starkness ("The red violin", 1948). In 1952, Dufy won The International Grand Prize of Painting at the XXVIth Venice Biennale, he died the following year.
