Raoul Dufy

Tellingly, Raoul Dufy's most grandiose work was an homage to electricity created for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris. To electricity. Dufy's paintings are endearingly ebullient. I suppose endearingly so for those who wish to see the world and all its polo ponies and Monte Carlo yachts through rose-coloured glasses, which I generally do (and as Dufy himself explicitly did). What a feast! As Gertrude Stein wrote: ‘Raoul Dufy est plaisir’. Dufy also did these incredible fashion…

Venice

Fauvism

Henri Matisse

Modern Boho Canvas Art