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Beskrivning

RAOUL DUFY
France 1877-1953
Le Cirque. Chevaux en piste
Signed Raoul Dufy. Oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm.
Executed 1931
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PROVENANCE
Galerie Arditti, Paris
Anon. Sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1955, catalogue No. 57
IngaBritt och Arne Lundberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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EXHIBITED
Raoul Dufy, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève 1952, catalogue No. 55
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LITERATURE
Maurice Laffaille: Raoul Dufy, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, tome IV, éditions Motte, Genève 1977, catalogue No. 1589, page 152
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Stockholms Auktionsverk would like to express its sincere gratitude to Madame Fanny Guillon-Laffaille for her valuable contribution to the cataloguing of the painting. Certificate from Madame Guillon-Laffaille dated Paris November 8th 2016 will be included with following mentioned "The painting was signed by the artist posterior to the image in the catalogue raisonné".
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During his artistic career, Raoul Dufy was a member of ´Les Fauves´, a group which made the claim that colour was the most important element in an artwork. Under the banner of "liberating colour", the Fauvists highlighted the intrinsic value of colours, and often used their colours in pure form - directly from the tube. The Fauvists thus released colour from its traditional, descriptive role in the presentation, and, in this way, charted the course for how it could be used as an expressive objective in and of itself.
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Dufy was born in Le Havre on the coast of Normandy in 1877. He attended the municipal school of art, where he met Othon Friesz, with whom he was later to share a studio in Montmartre - as well as a lifelong friendship. In 1900, he was accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon des Indépendants. In 1907, he discovered the work of Paul Cézanne at a retrospective dedicated to this artist at the Salon d´Automne in Paris. Almost immediately afterwards, he travelled with his friend George Braque to Cézanne´s ´home turf´ by the Mediterranean and began painting in the same places as the grand master.
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Dufy often painted in and around his childhood town of Le Havre, on the beach at Saint-Adresse, for example, and in the harbour town of Fécamp, where he was sometimes accompanied by his artist friend Albert Marquet. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was drawn to the race tracks, where he painted the crowds of people and the movements of the horses in clear, bright colours, with uneven black contours. He painted regattas, at the casino, in concert halls, and - as shown in this painting - in the circus environment.

Auktionsnummer:

16

Datum:

2016-11-15