Nautical Festival | Fête nautique
Artwork details
- Artist
- Raoul Dufy
- Title
- Nautical Festival | Fête nautique
- Date
- 1926
- Medium
- Aquatint
- Edition
- 200
- Sheet
- 57.2 x 68.3 cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- $6,000.00
Raoul Dufy’s work is classic of the Fauvism period and his paintings had a colourful, decorative flair which became very popular for use on ceramics and textiles. He is best known for his work depicting images of open-air social events, however he also worked as a printmaker, book illustrator, draftsman, a designer of furniture, a scenic designer and a planner of public spaces. Dufy left school at age 14 and he took evening art classes when he was 18. He completed a year of military service and then the following year in 1900 he won a scholarship to École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he met Othon Friesz, a fellow French artist of the Fauvist movement.
