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Beautiful Riviera scene signed Raoul Dufy
£7,500.00

This is a superb original Oil Painting signed Dufy. The painting is a beautiful illustration of a Riviera scene with thick impasto, showing signs of age with some cracking in the paint.

Thick impasto i.e the very thick use of Oils

Signed Dufy
Dufy's cheerful oils and watercolors depict yachting scenes, sparkling views of the French Riviera, chic parties and musical events. The optimistic and fashionably decorative and illustrative nature of much of his work has meant that his output is less highly critically valued than artists who treat a wider range of social concerns.
In 1938, Dufy completed one of the largest paintings ever done, a huge and immensely popular epic to electricity, the fresco La Fée Electricité for the Exposition Internationale in Paris.
Dufy also acquired a reputation as an illustrator and an applied artist. He changed the face of fashion and fabric design with his work for Paul Poiret. He painted murals for public buildings, and produced a prodigious number of tapestries and ceramic designs. His plates appear in books by Guillaume Apollinaire, Stéphane Mallarmé and André Gide.
Dufy died near Forcalquier, France, on 23 March 1953, and was buried not far from Matisse in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.
Please note
I do not have any certificate of authenticity for the oil and sell it as in the manner of Dufy for all representation.
